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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Ip Post 302106458 by reborg on Thursday 8th of February 2007 04:47:17 PM
Old 02-08-2007
This is an error prone way of doing things, there could be multiple lines that match, or the hostname could be in a commented line.

Getent is more reliable, and safe.

One way:

Code:
set -- $(getent hosts $(hostname))
ipaddress=$1

 
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