Re: [Plug] Bash script

[Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:37:34PM -0400, George McNeal wrote:
> I want to write a script that parses the local eth0 IP address out of
> /sbin/ifconfig and assigns the value to a variable (loceth0) and later
> use $loceth0 as a value.  The following executed on a command line gives
> the correct IP.:
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig | grep -A 4 eth0 | awk ' /inet/ { print $2 } ' | sed -e
> s/addr://
> 
> However, if I write
> 
> loceth0='/sbin/ifconfig | grep -A 4 eth0 | awk ' /inet/ { print $2 } '
> sed -e s/addr:// '
> 
> I get errors.  I am using the Bash shell.  What is the correct syntact
> or is there another route?

You may want to try enclosing the command in reverse quotes "`".
I don't actually know a whole lot about shell scripting, but that's
what you do in perl.

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