Re: [ALUG] Getting MAC address in a shell script

On 20/06/12 09:49, Brett Parker wrote:

Surely, you mean... mac=$(</sys/class/net/eth0/address)

Thanks Brett and Adam, that's much nicer. Can I combine that with the removal of ":" characters in a single command?

That does rely on the sys filesystem though...

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