Re: Utility to get IP address of the machine

[Bernhard Ege <bernhard at ege dot cc>]

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > > Why not the more simple:
> > >
> > > ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | awk '{print $NF}'
> >
> >
> > Because that may return more than one result. And it doesn't choose 
> > the one with the lowest metric, which is most likely to be the primary 
> > gateway to the world-at-large.
>
>
> By and large most people have but 1 IP address but if you must tack on a 
> "| head -1". YMMV

Perhaps, but if you ever use VPN, you have more than one network 
interface (one physical and one virtual). This was why I created my 
little script.

Also, many new motherboard have 2 NICs and also a firewire port that 
also functions as a NIC. All in all, more than 1 network interface is 
not that uncommon (I have 4 on my pc but up to 3 on my laptop (NIC, 
wireless, VPN).

Anyway, I gave my script to aid, not to start a discussion.

Have fun ;-)

Bernhard


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/