Is there any way I can re-use an IP address for a shutdown script in a network? I want to got to each machine and compare the IP address with the one I'm running the script from. I would like to shutdown the mmachine running the script at last (dah!). I'm usign Expect for the script. Can anyone help me here?

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh@xxx.xxx.x.x
(if IP source != IP from script execute ssh
else exit)

expect"password:"
send"dummy\r"
expect"*#"

Thanks!!

this isn't pretty but i'm still learning awk and sed so this the best i could do.
that will get you the ip address of the machine, like i said it's not pretty
I'm sure there is a better way, but I'm still learning awk and sed.
I think you can get the two awk pipes in to one call to awk but i'm not sure
since they are using two different dilimeters.

also could you be a little more clear on what you are trying to achieve here
why would you want to run a script to shut donw multiple machines, seems to
me like that could be trouble.