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...-common. The function ip_of uses the following shell code to extract the address: ip addr show "$1" | awk "/^.*inet.*$1\$/{print \$2}" | sed -n '1 s,/.*,,p' This code however fails if no slash is present in the address, which is the case in my configuration: stefan at datenbruch:/etc/xen/scripts$ ip addr show dev eth0 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:16:17:90:b4:35 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 88.198.12.XXX peer 88.198.12.XXX/32 brd 88.255.255.255 scope global eth0 [...] I changed the line to: ip addr s...