Sure, I'm saying that would be a fairer comparison - getting output from somethi...

majkinetor · on Jan 19, 2021

> how would powershell extract the MAC from ifconfig output?

It could go identically crazy as in bash, as it has its own grep (sls), can use grep itself etc.

    > (ipconfig /all | sls Physical) -replace ".+: "
    00-FF-84-14-66-D7
    00-FF-B7-06-19-0F
    00-15-5D-00-1F-3C
    ...

taviso · on Jan 19, 2021

Right, that's a fairer comparison. So the question is, why is that better?

majkinetor · on Jan 19, 2021

Its not. Everything else is.

Although, on more thought, it is better even as parsing engine as you have system design rules enforced across tools and OSes. Even single tool may work differently depending on *nix flavor.

13of40 · on Jan 19, 2021

Here's what I got:

ifconfig | ?{$_ -like "eth0 *"} | %{($_ -Split " ")[-1]}

In other words, find the line that starts with "eth0 ", then return the last column using " " as a delimiter.