grabbing the mac address from ifconfig output
It's lowercased because it just seems better that way.
ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr |awk '{print$5}' | sed 's/:/-/g' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]
French lessons are progressing.
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ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr |awk '{print$5}' | sed 's/:/-/g' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]
French lessons are progressing.
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ifconfig wlp4s0 | grep ether |awk '{print$2}' | sed 's/:/-/g' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]