Re: [CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

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

Or:

ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 11

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