Re: [CentOS] Define an alias with an embeded awk command

m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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Simpler, and more obvious to read:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk '{if ( $0 ~ /inet addr:/ ) {print substr($2,6)}}'

That's only obvious to the couple of people who speak awk... (Probably about the same number that use the C shell that started this problem).

With more generic regexps it would be:

ifconfig eth0 |sed -n -e 's/(.*inet addr:)([0-9.]*)(.*)/\2/p'

Right, and that's obvious to the meanest intelligence, while "if what I read in has this, then print this part of that field" is sooo complicated.

Are you willing to agree to differ, and stop attacking me, when I give one awk script to replace 3-4 commands?

mark