[Vm-dev] Finding ip address for eth0?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 27.08.2009, at 00:15, Andreas Raab wrote:

> David T. Lewis wrote:
>> Assuming that you're not looking for an elegant solution, you could
>> figure it out in the start script and pass it to Squeak as a command
>> line parameter.
>>  #!/bin/sh
>>  INTERFACE=eth0
>>  IPV4_ADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE | grep 'inet addr' | cut - 
>> c21-34`
>>  echo the IP address on interface $INTERFACE is $IPV4_ADDR
>>  /usr/local/bin/squeak myimage.image $IPV4_ADDR
>
> Wow, without sed? I'm impressed ;-) And you know what, that's just  
> what I'll do. Thanks for the snippet.


You might want to set LANG=C in the script. Or be surprised when  
running this on a localized machine.

- Bert -