Re: configure firewall in etch

[Tapani Tarvainen <debian@tapanitarvainen.fi>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:10:01PM -0600, Dan Schaper (dschaper@ganymeade.com) wrote:

> #!/bin/bash
> ip=`ifconfig $1 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d addr:`
> echo Your ip on $1 is $ip

Not that it really matters, but you don't need grep and tr:

ip=`ifconfig $1 | awk '/inet addr/{sub(/addr:/,""); print $2}'`

or even shorter

ip=`ifconfig $1 | awk -F'[: ]+' '/inet addr:/{print $4}'`

and unless you need the ip in a variable for other purposes, you can
do away with the echo as well:

ifconfig $1 | awk  -F'[: ]+' '/inet addr:/{print "your ip on '$1' is "$4}'

Also, it might be prudent to use full path for ifconfig,
i.e. /sbin/ifconfig, as /sbin may not be in $PATH.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen