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 -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240