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X-Sent: 21 Apr 2004 18:22:43 GMT
From: "Abe Backus" <abraham AT backus DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: how to get IP with a shell command?
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:22:41 -0700
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I rely more on where I'm logging into when automating my DISPLAY variable...
I assume that the parsed output of ipconfig might be incorrect in some
instances (for instance when I VPN to work and ipconfig display more than
one IP).  The output of "who am I" on the box you log into usually gives a
good address.

I put various if/else statements in my .bashrc and .cshrc on the boxes that
I log into that end up invoking this:

export DISPLAY=`who am i | sed -e 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/'`:0.0

-Abe

-----Original Message-----

To set the environment variable DISPLAY for XFree I use the following
command

export DISPLAY=`\
    ipconfig | grep 'IP-Adresse' | \
    sed 's/\(.*: \)\([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)\(.*\)/\2/g'`:0.0

'IP-Adresse' must be replaced with the proper version according to you
language.



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