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

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Majian jiannma@gmail.com wrote:

But After I edit the command "alias checketh0 "echo `ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' |awk '{print $2}' | cut -c 6-`" in my .cshrc file The screen displays this : innet addr:192.168.7.24 Bcast:192.168.7.255 Mask :255.255.255.0

I think you need to escape either the {} or $ in the awk command, or else not use it. Try:

[root@ ~]# alias checketh0 "ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:'|cut -d ':' -f 2|cut -f 1 -d ' '" [root@ ~]# checketh0 12.17.152.3

Note that I did not use any '`' marks. The example is on the command line, not in .cshrc, but I hope it will work in that context anyhow.

This is a bit OT, should probably have OT in the subject?

HTH! Dave