Never Lost

if you are tired of looking for your ip and doing ifconfig and getting sometimes a big response like this

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 34:15:9e:02:5b:24 
	media: autoselect
	status: inactive
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
	lladdr 34:15:9e:ff:fe:02:5b:24 
	media: autoselect <full-duplex>
	status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether f8:1e:df:e5:17:d9 
	inet6 fe80::fa1e:dfff:fee5:17d9%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 
	inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
	media: autoselect
	status: active
vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 
	inet 192.168.63.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.63.255
vmnet8: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 
	inet 192.168.46.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.46.255

and would like less complicated, like this

nlost

or would like to output the buffer to your clipboard using pbcopy (warning as this will replace everything on your current clipboard)

nlost pb
-> WIFI: 192.168.1.101
nlost pb wifi
-> 192.168.1.101

USAGE

Growl Sample

nlost

pbcopy Samples

nlost pb
nlost pb eth
nlost pb wifi

INSTALLATION

First make sure you have something on your path

echo $PATH -> /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

it should output something similar to the above, now the next part depends on your preferences, my favorite place to store my scripts is on /usr/local/bin (if you don't know or don't have a preference then just use the script below)

git clone git://github.com/mrpollo/Never-Lost.git Never-Lost | sudo ln -sv Never-Lost/nlost /usr/local/bin/nlost

if you need further assistance just email me [email protected]

REQUIREMENTS

OSX:

OSX is required to run initially but support for other OS's will be added in the future

Growl (growlnotify):

requires that you previously installed 'growlnotify' Growl and growlnotify can be found on their website http://growl.info/ please see them for help installing or using

pbcopy

pbcopy comes standard on OSX since 10.3