Bug#514916: Slightly better way.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:19:02AM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > +       for nic in $(ifconfig -a | grep '^[^ ]' | grep -v '^lo' |
> >                                        sed 's/ .*//' | tr '\012' ' ')
> 
> That's horrible. What's wrong with:
> 
>  for IF in /sys/class/net/*
>  do
>      # ...
>  done

I always forget about /sys; sorry.  You still need to drop lo,
though.

-Robin


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