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Old 01-26-2008
IP address in prompt using .bashrc
I know to display hostname, username .... etc in command prompt using .bashrc. But what i want is to display IP of the system in prompt.

Any way to do it ?Smilie
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Old 01-26-2008
Code:
PS1=`/sbin/ifconfig | sed '/Bcast/!d' | awk '{print $2}' | awk '{print $2}' FS=":"`$

//Jadu
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Old 01-26-2008
Thanks Jadu !
my awk version

ifconfig|grep Bcast|awk ' { print $2 }'|awk -F":" ' { print $2 }'
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