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Network Interfaces
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netstat -ie

minigeek · 2012-08-07 01:57:49 0
Find Mac address
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1

ip li | grep ether | awk '{print $2}'

minigeek · 2012-05-14 23:22:18 8
Get the mac address of eth0 in uppercase minus the colons

This will get the mac address of the eth0 and change lowercase to uppercase. The sed command removed the colons.
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ifconfig eth0 | grep 'HWaddr' | awk '{print $5}' | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | sed -e 's/://g'

minigeek · 2010-06-26 05:35:03 0
mac address for eth0
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-2

ifconfig eth0 | grep 'HWaddr' | awk '{print $5}'

minigeek · 2010-06-26 05:24:31 1

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