From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T23:36:29+09:00
Subject: Re: mac addr determination

On 7/3/07, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> can someone run this on windows and let me know if it works?
>
>      def mac_address
>        return @mac_address if defined? @mac_address
>        re = %r/[^:\-](?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z][:\-]){5}[0-9A-Za-z]
> [0-9A-Za-z][^:\-]/o
>        lines =
>          begin
>            IO.popen('ifconfig'){|fd| fd.readlines}
>          rescue
>            IO.popen('ipconfig /all'){|fd| fd.readlines}
>          end
>        candidates = lines.select{|line| line =~ re}
>        @mac_address = candidates.first[re].strip
>      end
>
>
> thanks!

works.

J.