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Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs



Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org> writes:

> Is there a portable way to
>
> 1) get a list of all my NICs (eth0, eth1, ath0, whatever);
>    and
> 2) get all their IPs?
>
> For some reason I'm having a hard time figuring this out.
> And I need it to run across Gentoo, Debian, FreeBSD and
> others, so it needs to be portable. I assume there's some
> POSIX-approved way to do this, right?

ifconfig

It lives in one of the sbins, usually, so probably isn't in your $PATH

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James					jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten 
counting system and likes round numbers."  Scott Adams



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