Hope you don’t mind the plug, but you do say “if anyone reading this has an eloquent way to sync Gmail and Address Book contacts I’d love to hear about it!”. ;-)

I’m glad that you like it :)

When I run it as a shell command it gives me an error “: No such file or directory.

I’m not sure what else needs to be done. Thanks

EMAIL ME “crompton_rufc@hotmail.co.uk”
or pm,comment on my youtube paige thanx a lot!

I just got my MACBOOK, I read what you guys have describe in encountering the problems and solving the problems. The things about me, I am not a professional when it comes to IT, any one can offer simple solution?

I greatly appreciate.

echo “External :” `curl –silent http://checkip.dyndns.org | awk ‘{print $6}’ | cut -f 1 -d “

ETHERNET IP : INACTIVE
AIRPORT STATUS: CONNECTED
SSID : Lothlorien
RATE : 172.16.1.8 Mb/s
AIRPORT IP : 172.16.1.8

The output looks something more like this:

ETHERNET IP   : INACTIVE
AIRPORT  STATUS: CONNECTED
         SSID : linksys
         RATE : 54 Mb/s
AIRPORT  IP    : 10.0.9.60

I use the parsed output of the command-line airport status tool. It’s a handy doodad, and located at: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport

Here’s my perl script..

#!/usr/bin/perl                                                                                                         
# a little script to get your network status                                                                            

$en0_info = `ifconfig en0 | grep "inet" | grep -v 127.0.0.1`;
$en1_info = `ifconfig en1 | grep "inet" | grep -v 127.0.0.1`;
$airport_info = `/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I`;

if($en0_info)
{
    $en0_info =~ /inet (.*) netmask/s;
    $output .= "ETHERNET IP   : $1\n";

}
else
{ $output .= "ETHERNET IP   : INACTIVE\n";}


if($en1_info)
{
    $en1_info =~ /inet (.*) netmask/s;
    $en1_info = $1;
    $airport_info =~ /lastTxRate: (\d )/s;
    $airport_rate = $1;
    $airport_info =~ /BSSID(.*?)SSID: (.*?)\n/s;
    $airport_SSID = $2;
    $output .= "AIRPORT  STATUS: CONNECTED\n";
    $output .= "         SSID : $airport_SSID\n";
    $output .= "         RATE : $airport_rate Mb/s\n";
    $output .= "AIRPORT  IP    : $en1_info\n";
}
else
{ $output .= "AIRPORT  STATUS: INACTIVE\n";}

print "$output";