Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
Why not the more simple:
ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | awk '{print $NF}'
Because that may return more than one result. And it doesn't choose
the one with the lowest metric, which is most likely to be the primary
gateway to the world-at-large.
By and large most people have but 1 IP address but if you must tack on a
"| head -1". YMMV
Perhaps, but if you ever use VPN, you have more than one network
interface (one physical and one virtual). This was why I created my
little script.
Also, many new motherboard have 2 NICs and also a firewire port that
also functions as a NIC. All in all, more than 1 network interface is
not that uncommon (I have 4 on my pc but up to 3 on my laptop (NIC,
wireless, VPN).
Anyway, I gave my script to aid, not to start a discussion.
Have fun ;-)
Bernhard
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