Re: How to determine local IP

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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote:

> > /sbin/ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f1
> 
> nice, now can you do that with a perl one-liner? :)

Something like this?
perl -e 'print (`/sbin/ifconfig` =~ /inet addr:(.*?)\s/);'

--nico ;) 

(yeah you'll probably have to change 'inet addr' to 'P-t-P')

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