This works in Linux, must work on other *nix versios too !
ping -c1 `hostname` | grep from | tail -n 1 | cut -f4 -d" " | cut -f1
-d":"
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">Stan.Hearn@ipst.edu wrote:
>
> I want to write a script which will run on Linux, Solaris 2.x, and IRIX 6.x
> which needs to determine it's own IP address or it's subnet of the machine
> that it's running on.
>
> I thought of using nslookup or ifconfig and culling out the information.
>
> Anyone know of a better (or should I say standard) solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Stan
>
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