On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Max Hetrick <maxhetrick at verizon.net> wrote: > Toby Bluhm wrote: > > > 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 For the sed people, this should also work : ifconfig | grep eth0 | sed -e "s/^.*HWaddr \(.*\)$/\1/" Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)