Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> writes:
>On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Tanco . wrote:
>> Hi Hugo,
>>
>> this will give you the IP :)
>>
>> ifconfig ppp0 | grep "inet addr:" | awk '{ print $2}' | tail -c14
> ifconfig ppp0 | awk '/inet addr:/{ print $2}' | cut -d: -f2
ifconfig ppp0 | awk '/inet addr:/{ split($2, a, ":"); print a[2] }'
Once you invoke awk, you may as well use it for all your string
manipulation.