Here's one way, I'm sure there are 100 more:
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk -F':' '{print $2}' | awk
'{print $1}'
Stew Benedict
At 08:22 AM 12/05/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>i am trying to write a little shell script that will
>update my dns on a remote machine every 10 minutes,
>using nsupdate. the problem is I need to get the IP
>address of my dsl connection, but i can't seem to find
>a way to parse the output from ifconfig. my connection
>uses PPPOE. i would be very appreciative if one of the
>perl gurus would point me in the right direction.
>
>
>here is the output from ifconfig, the only thing i
>need is the inet addr.
>
>ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:138.89.32.190 P-t-P:10.5.1.1
>Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST
>MTU:1492 Metric:1
> RX packets:57247 errors:0 dropped:0
>overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:40905 errors:0 dropped:0
>overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>
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