stupid perl question.

[Frank J.Ramsay]

Thanks!

	-fjr

On Sunday 11 November 2001 11:00, Brian Medley wrote:
> 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/;