[ale] Get host's IP address as an unprivileged user?

[Derek Atkins]

Richard Bronosky <Richard at Bronosky.com> writes:

> Thanks Geoffrey. A little piece of me dies every time I see some one
> pipe [almost] any combination of grep | sed | awk | tr | cut

I admit that 'awk' is just one of those tools I never completely groked.
I learned enough to use it to print out the Nth field, but that's really
all I know how to do with it, which is why I use the other tools.

Besides, that's the whole point of Unix -- you have lots of small tools
that each do one thing well, and then you string them together to make
the functionality you want!

-derek

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