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kumar
Asked: 2010-07-20 03:58:14 +0800 CST

getting interface names from dmesg lines

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I have some lines like [ 17.440000] eth0: XYZCOMPANY ABC4353 802.11 Wireless Controller

[ 17.540000] eth1: XYZCOMPANY ABC4353 802.11 Wireless Controller

[ 17.640000] eth2: XYZCOMPANY ABC4353 802.11 Wireless Controller

I need to get eth0, eth1, eth2 into a variable in shell script. As you can notice all the other lines like XYZCOMPANY ABC4353 remains constant.but interface name is keep changing. I need to get those interface names into a variable.

Thanks!

linux scripting bash linux-networking

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This will show eth and wlan addresses with any number of digits:

    var=$(dmesg | grep -Eo '(eth|wlan)[[:digit:]]+')

    If you don't need wlan you can remove the alternate. I'm not sure if the eth driver uses hex, but you can change "digit" to "xdigit" if it does and you need to allow for more than 10 intefaces.

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  2. That is to have something like "eth0: eth1: eth2" in your variable

    var=`awk /./'{print $3}' lala `
echo $var
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  3. This solution should be working too:

    var=$(dmesg | grep "eth[0-9]: [A-Za-z0-9 ]* 802.11 Wireless Controller" | awk '{ print substr($3,0,5) }')

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