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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
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