finding local IP?

[Dar Scott]

On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>> MacOS X
>>      put replaceText(shell("/sbin/ifconfig en0 | head -3 | grep 'inet 
>> '
>> | cut -d' ' -f 2"),"(\s|\(|\))","") into theIPAddress
>
> I'd always used this:
>
>      put shell("ipconfig getifaddr en0") into tIPAddress
>      if tIPAddress contains "failure" then put "" into tIPAddress
>
> I guess there's more than one way to skin a cat...

Both of these get only the first one IP address associated with en0.  I 
guess 99.5% of the time that is what you want.  I imagine that few Macs 
have more than one IP address on en0.

On my system this always gets the initial one, no matter the order in 
network setup.

Dar
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