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Date:      Sun,  9 Mar 2003 19:48:54 -0800
From:      Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>
To:        David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>
Cc:        "" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: identifying my network address
Message-ID:  <1047268134.3e6c0b263d124@ra.dweebsoft.com>

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Quoting David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>:

> I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to 
> tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY
> varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0   
> 
> Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose?
> 

DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/[(|)]//g'`:0.0

give that a shot...  

I'm sure there's a shorter, cleaner way...but it works.


--daxbert




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