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stupid perl question.



On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:51:40AM -0500, Frank J. Ramsay wrote:

> Why doesn't this work?
> What it's doing up dumping the output to the console and not assigning it to 
> $ipaddy.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> my $ipaddy = `/sbin/ifconfig | grep Bcast | sed \'s/:/ /g\' | awk \'{print 
> $3}\'`;
  ^^ => \$3

You could also try:
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    print `/sbin/ifconfig` =~ /inet addr:([\d\.]+)\s+Bcast/;

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