Re: hot to get IP from shell -> C solution

[Chris Herborth <chrish at cryptocard dot com>]

electa wrote:

> /* little utility to get the IP address of the machine
> - prints the IP address in triple-dotted form xxx.yyy.zzz.www,
> or nothing if can't get it.
> - this code is a fragment from EpidEm code.
> */

The Python one is easier... ;-)

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Print IP address of the machine, or nothing.
import socket
try:
    print socket.gethostbyname( socket.gethostname() )
except:
    pass

Perl's probably just as easy.

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