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Old 07-02-2010
Question Setting the correct parameter
Hi Gurus,

Here is the issue that I've encountered.

Code:
VAR1=`hostname | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
-> convert hostname to uppercase

VAR2=`grep $VAR1 /etc/hosts | awk '{ print $1 }'`
-> Since hostname is already in uppercase, grep is unable to find it in /etc/hosts. How to handle VAR2?

Is there a better way to extract the hostname and IP on separate variable?
Please kindly advice on how to extract the IP address.

Thank you.



Regards,
Peter
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Old 07-02-2010
Peter

Do a case-insensitive search in that case:

Code:
VAR2=`grep -i $VAR1 /etc/hosts | awk '{ print $1 }'`

Guru.
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superHonda123
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Old 07-02-2010
Here's my script for printing the local IP.

I prefer to get the actual address from the network device instead of the address it's supposed to be in /etc/hosts. But some of my machines have the IP address assigned to br0 device instead eth0, so I check both.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
IP="$(/sbin/ifconfig br0 2>/dev/null|grep 'inet ')"
test -z "$IP"  &&  IP="$(/sbin/ifconfig eth0|grep 'inet ')"
echo $IP | sed 's/.*addr:\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/'

Of course, If you want the result in a variable, you could capture the last line back into IP:
IP="$(echo $IP | sed 's/.*addr:\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/')"
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superHonda123
# 4  
Old 07-02-2010
No need for grep if you are using gawk. You can turn case insensitivity on using IGNORECASE.
Code:
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost
....
192.168.0.115   admiralty
192.168.0.116   central
192.168.1.230   quarry
....
$ VAR1=Central
$ VAR2=$(gawk 'BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1} /'$VAR1'/ {print $1}' /etc/hosts)
$ echo $VAR2
192.168.0.116

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superHonda123
# 5  
Old 07-02-2010
Code:
# grep `hostname|tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'` /etc/hosts

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superHonda123
# 6  
Old 07-02-2010
Hi Gurus,

Thanks a lot for your help.

I’ve managed to solve my issue.


Regards,
Peter
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