hi,

i tried to put this pipe into my .bashrc
to display my current ip address:

alias myip="ifconfig | awk '/broadcast / {print $2}'"

and it prints the full line of the ifconfig output.
when i test this pipe in the shell like this

$> ifconfig | awk '/broadcast / {print $2}'

it works fine.!?

where is my mistake?

thank you for the help

marc

Try this:

im sorrry that doesn´t change it.
i get only the second argument as output when i type it in the shell.
but in .bashrc i still get the whole line as output.

how can i get just the second argument as output?
has it to do with the " or ' s ?

thank you in advance.

marc

I suspect it has something to do with the default field separator not being set. Can you try and see if this works:

awk -F" " '/broadcast / {print $2}'

(Note there is a space between the double quotes).

the backslash made it work!
thank you very much.
marc