[ale] finding ip address of host

[greg at turnstep.com]

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> I need to find out the ip address of the host. I have a series 
> of commands that will do it. Anyone have a better way?
> 
> ifconfig eth0 |grep -i inet | cut -f2 -d":" |cut -f1 -d" "

This should work just fine. Is there any reason not to use the above? 
My only small suggestions would be to specify the full path to 
ifconfig (just in case) and to remove the superflous "-i" because 
ifconfig always returns inet lowercase anyway.

Greg Sabino Mullane
greg at turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200109180907

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