[PLUG] sed command line script help

Richard Langis richard.langis at sun.com
Sat Nov 9 00:00:42 UTC 2002


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Percival, Ray wrote:
> On what server is the #orlug of which you speak?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Langis 
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 3:28 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] sed command line script help
> 
> 
> I needed to do the same thing, got help in the #orlug channel in about a 
> minute.  Here's what the cool froods in there came up with:
> 
> addrext=`ifconfig eth1 |grep "inet addr" |awk -F":" '{ print $2 }' |awk 
> -F " " '{ print $1 }'`
> 
> just change 'eth1' to your appropriate interface and you're golden.
> 
> -R
> 
> 
> Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> 
>>Howdy!
>>
>>I've been reading the docs, and I'm just getting more confused with
>>sed. I want to extract the inet address from "ifconfig ppp0" to patch
>>into an html doc for upload to my constant web space page.
>>
>>What to do with the data after it's gathered is relatively easy, I
>>think; but getting the data is another matter.
>>
>>  inet addr:192.168.0.177  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>
>>Turning the above into:
>>
>>  <A HREF=http://192.160.0.177> Ongoing Work In Progess </A>
>>
>>is the goal (the IP numbers here are for reference only).
>>
>>My plan is to paste this line in between the front and back of the
>>rest of an html doc, and then scp it to it's destination; but only if
>>the IP number has changed since the previous check.
>>
>>The docs seem unreasonably complex, or maybe I'm just making it that
>>way. This seems like the sort of thing that's done often (especially
>>where broadband is out of reach); so an example of such code ought to
>>be more readily available?
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>TIA!
>>-bk
> 
> 

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