http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/read-unixlinux-system-ip-address-in-a-shell-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/read-unixlinux-system-ip-address-in-a-shell-script.html#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:27:00 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/read-unixlinux-system-ip-address-in-a-shell-script.html

Reading an IP address in shell script required many time. However, different Linux distribution stores IP address in different files. If you are looking to run script under different UNIX like OSes such as Solaris or FreeBSD then you need to use the ifconfig command. The ifconfig command is not just used to configure a network interface, but it can be use to obtained information such as network IP, netmask and much more. ]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/read-unixlinux-system-ip-address-in-a-shell-script.html/feed 25 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-display-information-about-the-system.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-display-information-about-the-system.html#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:10:00 +0000 nixcraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-display-information-about-the-system.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-display-information-about-the-system.html/feed 8