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# 1  
Old 10-09-2008
how grep the inet address for in ifconfig command
hi,

i want to know how to grep inet address for below


below is the output of ifconfig command

/home/JA> ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:0A:5B:2E:E9
inet addr:161.239.203.18 Bcast:161.239.203.127 Mask:255.255.255.128
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:0A:5B:2F:00
inet addr:161.239.195.11 Bcast:161.239.195.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1


i want a grep command for this to make below from the above output

etho inet addr:161.239.203.18
eth1 inet addr:161.239.195.11
# 2  
Old 10-09-2008
Should be something like:

Code:
ifconfig | awk '/^eth/{s=$1;getline;print s,$1,$2}'

Regards
# 3  
Old 10-09-2008
thank you very much
# 4  
Old 10-23-2008
can know how to run the above command in diff host :

means

i want to run like

ssh -l < host > ifconfig | awk '/^eth/{s=$1;getline;print s,$1,$2}'

but it was not working..
could you please help me in that
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