Hi Monks, wonder if somebody can shed some light!

Using Fedora Core 4 box, perl 5.8.6, have a small script that I'd like to find default gateway of a dynamically allocated ip address.

This command:
netstat -r | grep ^default | awk '{print $2}'
works fine from a bash prompt, and gives me address output:
217.xx.xx.xx

I thought I could do this in perl:
my $GATEWAY_ADDR=`netstat -r | grep ^default | awk '{print $2}'`;

but it dunt work, It won't give me JUST the gateway address like the first one it spits out the whole line thus:
default 217.xx.xx.xx 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

I'd be the first to admit not very good at perl, wonder if somebody could give me a pointer?

Thanks in advance,
Kind regards, Rob.

2006-02-10 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'get default gatway'

In reply to get default gateway by robster

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