bug#8500: util: where am i (original) (raw)

[Top][All Lists]

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

From: Bob Proulx
Subject: bug#8500: util: where am i
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:48:20 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

severity 8500 wishlist thanks

Panagiotis Tsiamis wrote:

Request for adding one more feature on the utillity whoami.

The feature should be able to called by "where am i" or "whereami"

And should locate: a) System hostname

$ hostname

b) ip of the system

You tickled a pet issue of mine. A host rarely has just one IP address. This would need to be a list of addresses.

$ ip addr show | awk '/inet/{print$2}'

A host has a number of network interfaces and each network interface has a number of IP addresses. This results in a host potentially having quite a few associated addresses!

On my network all simple hosts have four IP addresses. A more complicated host has seven IP addresses. One of the most interesting hosts has 17 IP addresses.

c) current working directory

$ pwd

d) anything else that could be usefull for identify where you are located currently.

$ gpslocation # <-- Just joking here.

Bob