[ale] Get host's IP address as an unprivileged user?

[Geoffrey Myers]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Richard Bronosky <Richard at Bronosky.com> writes:
> 
>> Thanks Geoffrey. A little piece of me dies every time I see some one
>> pipe [almost] any combination of grep | sed | awk | tr | cut
> 
> I admit that 'awk' is just one of those tools I never completely groked.
> I learned enough to use it to print out the Nth field, but that's really
> all I know how to do with it, which is why I use the other tools.

I once used awk to build a language pre-processor, so I have used it 
extensively.  Gotten a little rusty of late though, from disuse.

> 
> Besides, that's the whole point of Unix -- you have lots of small tools
> that each do one thing well, and then you string them together to make
> the functionality you want!

True, but reducing the number of processes is always good.

> 
> -derek
> 


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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