sadmicrowave

ok, next problem when I quote it. My password has "!" in it, so bash interprets that as a declaration and splits the string automatically and gives me an error like so:

-bash: [email protected]/Shared/Information: event not found

Hey all, I'm having an issue with mount_smbfs and having a space in my path. My mount path looks like this:
'smb://cofarmer:[email protected]/Shared/Information Technology1/Interoperability' '/Volumes/Interoperability'
and I'm getting an error stating: "mount_smbfs: URL parsing failed, please correct the URL and try again: Invalid argument"

heres the one I made for debian:

echo $(/sbin/ip route | awk '/eth0/ && ++i==2 { print $1 }')

well here is what I've got so far (mind you I'm working on a mac so you'll simply have to edit the `en0` interface to `eth0` if you want to run this on ubuntu) but it converts your ip address + subnet mask to cidr format:

while read y; do echo ${y%.*}".0/$(m=0; while read -n 1 x && [ $x = f ]; do m=$[m+4]; done < <(ifconfig en0 | awk '/mask/{$4=substr($4,3);print $4}'); echo $m )"; done < <(ifconfig en0 | awk '/inet[ ]/{print $2}');

next question, subshell string manipulation using substring... this works perfectly fine:

echo $(ifconfig en0 | awk '/netmask/{$4=substr($4,3);print $4}')

but for academic purposes, I'm trying to condense using the other substr notation `${"$4":3}`, how could I use this notation in the command above?

@Lucio:

MASK=0; echo "$(ifconfig en0 | awk '/netmask/ {split($4 ,a,"x"); print a[2]}')" | while read -n 1 bit && [[ $bit != 0 ]]; do MASK=$(($MASK + 4)); echo $MASK; done; echo $MASK