On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:51 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > > I am trying to grab the mac address for eth0 on centos 5.1 with > > > > ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 5 and I dont get anything. > > > > What am I not doing right? > > > > ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 gives me eth0 but anything else > > like -f 2, -f 3 etc > > I get nothing. > > > > Jerry > > > > There's multiple spaces in the output that cut is hitting - use tr to > reduce them. > > ifconfig | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5 /sbin/ifconfig | grep eth0 | awk '{ print $5 }' for the lazy way or "man gawk" to see how to select and print and skip lines of no interest, eliminating the grep. > > HTH -- Bill _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos