Re: [uml-devel] setup_etheradder patch

[Steve S. <ste...@ho...>]

Ulf...@t-... wrote:
>MAC=$(echo $IPADDR | awk -F. '{ printf 
>"fe:fd:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n",$1,$2,$3,$4 }')
>
>...not pure bash but awk should be widely available...

jd...@ka... wrote:
>   echo -n "Please enter UML IP address to use and press return: "
>   read IPADDR
>   X=`echo $IPADDR | awk -F. '{print $1, $2, $3, $4}'`
>   # or X=`echo $IPADDR | sed 's/\./ /g'`
>   MAC= `printf "fe:fd:%x:%x:%x:%x" $X
>   exec ./bin/linux mem=64M IP=${IPADDR} eth0=mcast,${MAC}
>
> > If you can tell me how to get (ba)sh to output hex digits, because I
> > honestly don't know, I will shut up. :)

*sigh* yup.  If I was grasping at straws, I'd call a technicality that if 
bash script had been chrooted then you'd have to populate the bin dir with 
extra binaries.  I conceed the solutions are not outlandish.  I'll shut up.

Steve Schmidtke

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