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Re: MAC Address of An Interface

by hsinclai (Deacon)
on Sep 08, 2004 at 03:00 UTC ( #389267=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to MAC Address of An Interface

Did you say Linux?

Maybe parse it out of the ifconfig output itself? 

perl -e '$if=eth0; $mac=(split(/\s+/,qx!/sbin/ifconfig $if!))[4]; prin
+t $mac;'

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On BSD you'd pull out the "ether" line of ifconfig..

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