Re: GRabbing MAC address

[Matt Hyclak <hyclak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:56:49AM -0500, Max Hetrick enlightened us:
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> Toby Bluhm wrote:
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> > There's multiple spaces in the output that cut is hitting - use tr to
> > reduce them.
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> > ifconfig | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
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> Or:
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> ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 11
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Or reduce the number of pipes by one:

ifconfig eth0 | awk '/HWaddr/ { print $5 }'

Matt

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