[CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

Milton Calnek milton at calnek.com
Thu Feb 28 14:02:49 UTC 2008


ip is probably a better tool (than ifconfig)

ip link show eth0 | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f3

Max Hetrick wrote:
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> Toby Bluhm wrote:
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>> There's multiple spaces in the output that cut is hitting - use tr to
>> reduce them.
>>
>> ifconfig | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
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> Or:
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> ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 11
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