Message-Id: <200404211823.i3LINOU1020638@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Sent: 21 Apr 2004 18:22:43 GMT From: "Abe Backus" To: Subject: RE: how to get IP with a shell command? Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:22:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <511817FBFD979747B7EF13AA7136E72D2D1368@si-mail07.de.bosch.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/