[Vm-dev] Finding ip address for eth0?

[John M McIntosh]

Careful, on my macbook pro, the ethernet port is en0, which is rarely  
used.
But en1 is wireless and mostly used
so the INTERFACE=eth0 is going to be machine dependent


On 26-Aug-09, at 3:15 PM, 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.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas

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