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

[Lightner, Jeff]

If you can't dazzle people with brilliance baffle them with BS.

Train your newbies that the proper way to see the size of the root
filesystem is:

df -h / |awk '{print $0}'|cat |tr \000 \000 |sed -e s/zzzzzz/zzzzzzzzz/

:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:11 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Get host's IP address as an unprivileged user?

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

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
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