infrmation about ip only via ifconfig ?

saavik · 07-15-2002, 06:50 AM

Hello!
is there something to get a output only about the ip?

if i type :

ifconfig ppp0

i get to much infos!
i just want to get the ip!

paulewogg · 07-15-2002, 09:37 AM

ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet

HTH

Paul

saavik · 07-15-2002, 09:55 AM

that was really a good idea!

i configured a little bit.
here is what is working now!

ip=`ifconfig -a ppp0 | grep "inet addr" | cut -f2 -d ":" | cut -f1 -d "P"`
echo ftp://USERNAME:PASSWORT@$ip > ip.txt
mail mail@whoever.com < ip.txt

so you just don`t need a fix ip anymore!

paulewogg · 07-15-2002, 10:15 AM

Glad it worked out for you!