Re: Is there a utility to get IP address from interface?

[Mal Beaton <mal@mbeaton.id.au>]

James Sinnamon wrote:
> Dear debian users,
>
> Is there a utility to simply return the IP address of an interface, say
> eth1 or ppp0?  I need something that works like:
>
> $ netutil eth0
> 144.133.251.117
>
> ... or is it necessary to use ifconfig something like as follows:
>
> $ ifconfig eth0 | sed ' ... ' | cut '....' | awk '...'  | .... etc
> 144.133.251.117
>
> ?
>
> TIA
>
> James
>
> PS.  I am doing this all in order to get ddns3 working so any pointers to 
> useful docs would be greatly appreciated.


This is a script one of my co-workers wrote that may help
 http://zwitterion.org/software/dynamic-dns-update/