Re: getting my IP on OS x
Re: getting my IP on OS x
- Subject: Re: getting my IP on OS x
- From: garrett <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 04:41:20 -0500
Sometime 'round 06/17/2002 02:55 AM, so and so (garbanzito) at such n such
(email@hidden) graced my inbox with this brilliant thought:
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at 2002 06 17, 02:07 -0500, they whom i call garrett wrote:
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> which from the terminal works great - returns my IP. but when I do:
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> do shell script "ifconfig en0 | awk '/inet/{print $2}'"
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> the result is ""
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> any ideas?
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try
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do shell script "/sbin/ifconfig en0 | /usr/bin/awk '/inet/{print $2}'"
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because ifconfig is in /sbin, which isn't in the default do
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shell script path. you'd expect an error, but the pipe is
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effectively silencing it.
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awk is in the default path, but the advice some have given
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to use a full path for every command seems better every day.
woohoo! thank u very much (and for the explanation)
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garrett
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