[CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

[Bob Beers]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:

> I am trying to grab the mac address for eth0 on centos 5.1 with
>
> ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 5 and I dont get anything.
>
> What am I not doing right?
>
> ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 gives me eth0 but anything else
> like -f 2, -f 3 etc
> I get nothing.
>
>
ifconfig -a | awk '/eth0/ {print $5}'

should work even if eth0 is not 'UP'
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