Markus

Hello All,
Here's another one for you. I want to get the MAC address for device en0 on my machine. I've found two ways so far of doing this:

ifconfig en0 | grep "ether"

Which is returning:

ether 00:16:ed:15:16:2d

and

networksetup -getmacaddress en0

Which is returning:

Ethernet Address: 00:16:ed:15:16:2d (Device: en0)



This is all well and good, however, what I want is just the MAC Address and none of the other text in the string, and I also need to remove the colons as well. So I'd end up with:

0016ed15162d

I'm thinking perhaps grep/sed might be of use here, but I'm not sure exactly what syntax/options/arguments to use.

Could someone point me in the right direction please

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Can you add the following on at the end of the syntax:

| cut -d:

or if that doesn't work then:

| cut -d ":"


This should remove the ':'

Althiough this works fine in KSH and on AIX. What O/S are you using?

Markus

OS X 10.5.5, using bash shell

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Ahh so LINUX based. Should work the same. Have you tried the following then?

ifconfig en0 | grep "ether" | cut -d":"

The only other way i can think of to get the MAC address in a UNIX way is possibly using the netstat command with the either of the following flags at the end; -ia -in.

Hanley

As you know the beginning of the return is always going to be

Ethernet Address:

Including the space after the colon, can you not use the equivalent to the MID command to take the next 17 characters??

Sorry but I don't know the Linux equivalent to MID

Should be fairly straightforward to remove the colons once you have just the MAC address.