From: luc DOT tanguay AT Bell DOT ca (TANGUAY, LUC) Subject: Re: Finding Out My Own IP-Address 7 May 1998 17:53:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3551B6FA.2A34DCEA.cygnus.gnu-win32@bell.ca> References: <199805062058 DOT NAA06618 AT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I have a bash script to do it (it's called getIPaddress :-) #!/bin/bash # Get the IP address of the first LAN adapter. /winnt/system32/ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | head -1 | sed 's/^.*: //' Example of its use: --- start of example --- #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=$($HOME/bin/getIPaddress):0.0 # If network not started, address will be nul. So correct it. if [ "$DISPLAY" = "0.0.0.0:0.0" ] then export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 fi --- end of example --- Hope this help, Luc. -- Luc Tanguay, ing. Bell Canada Recherche et génie logiciel/Software Engineering & Research 1050 Beaver Hall, 2e étage/2nd floor Montréal (Québec) H2Z 1S4, Canada Tél./phone: (514) 786-6440 mailto:Luc DOT Tanguay AT bell DOT ca - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".