need some quick scripting help

[proggybilly]

I need to place the results of ifconfig into a file, but seperating the interfaces. I can get the info into the file, but it runs it all together into one line. Can anyone help me to seperate the information?

I am doing:

THRU=`ifconfig`
echo $THRU > /backup/log.txt

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

try:

ifconfig > /backup/log.txt

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it. -- Chinese proverb

 

[proggybilly]

Thanks, I tried that and it worked. Guess I was going about it wrong. I am still new to shell scripting.

 

[dstxaix]

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[p5wizard]

With your backticks construct it can be done also, but you have to quote the echoed text:

THRU=`ifconfig`
echo [red]"[/red]$THRU[red]"[/red] > /backup/log.txt

And I always use the [tt][red]$(...)[/red][/tt] construct instead of the backticks because I find it easier to read. I also put braces [tt][red]{}[/red][/tt] around variable names when getting their value:

THRU=[red]$([/red]ifconfig[red])[/red]
echo [red]"[/red]$[red]{[/red]THRU[red]}"[/red] > /backup/log.txt

HTH,

p5wizard