[CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

[Toby Bluhm]

Jerry Geis 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.
>
> Jerry
>

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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