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Commands tagged ifconfig

Terminal - Commands tagged ifconfig - 38 results

for i in `netstat -rn|egrep -v "Interface|Routing"|awk '{print $5}'`;do ifconfig $i;done

2011-12-16 09:49:03

User: giorger

Functions: awk egrep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig hp-ux

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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

Command is properly working on HP-UX 11.31

ifconfig | awk '/inet / {sub(/addr:/, "", $2); print $2}'

2011-12-07 22:27:14

User: snahor

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: Linux ifconfig awk

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

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watch -n 2 -d '/sbin/ifconfig eth0'

2011-08-16 10:29:34

User: totti

Functions: watch

Tags: Network ifconfig watch

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Highlight network TX, RX information change

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ifconfig | awk '/HWaddr/ { print $1, $5 }'

2011-06-02 12:11:08

User: Wazutiman

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig awk grep

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List your interfaces and MAC addresses

Why use grep and awk?

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ifconfig | grep HWaddr | awk '{print $1,$5}'

2011-05-28 23:12:01

User: jaimerosario

Functions: awk grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig awk grep

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List your interfaces and MAC addresses

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{ if (/^[A-Za-z0-9]/) { interface=$1; next } else { if (/inet [Aa][d]*r/) { split($2,ip,":") } else { next } } print interface"\t: "ip[2] }

2010-12-14 15:38:25

User: gismo82

Tags: ifconfig awk

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Get your IP addresses

Shows the interface and the ip-address

ifconfig | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2

2010-12-06 10:36:52

User: dooblem

Functions: cut grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig grep cut

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Get your IP addresses

This is what we use.

You can grep -v 127.0.0.1 if you wish.

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ifconfig | sed -ne 's/^.*inet $addr:$*$[^ ]*$.*/\2/;te' -e 'd;:e' -e '/^127\./d;p'

2010-12-05 17:14:57

User: dramaturg

Functions: ifconfig sed

Tags: ifconfig sed

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Get your local IP regardless of your network interface

This also works on non-Linux machines. If you have GNU sed you can do it more elegantly:

ifconfig | sed -n 's/^\s*inet $addr:$\?$[^\s]*$ .*/\2/;T;/^127\./d;p'

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ifconfig|sed '/inet/!d;/127.0/d;/dr:\s/d;s/^.*:$.*$B.*$/\1/'

2010-12-01 21:08:29

User: marssi

Functions: ifconfig sed

Tags: ifconfig sed

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Get your local IP regardless of your network interface

Shows only IP-addresses of ifconfig except 127.0.0.0/8.

I fixed the script to work on more systems and configs

short info

/inet/!d; #grep inet

/127.0/d; # grep -v 127.0

/dr:\s/d; # grep -v dr:

s/^.*:$.*$B.*$/\1/ # remove everything exept between : and B

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ifconfig eth0 | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2

2010-07-01 20:25:55

User: dooblem

Functions: cut grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig grep cut

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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

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ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | cut -d ':' -f2

2010-06-30 08:52:01

User: mrwill

Functions: awk cut ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig awk grep cut

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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

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ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet " | cut -d ':' -f2 | awk '{print $1}'

2010-06-29 00:06:08

User: jaimerosario

Functions: awk cut grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig awk grep cut

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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

I've been using it in a script to build from scratch proxy servers.

ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1

2010-06-26 22:36:21

User: atoponce

Functions: cut grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig

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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

Simple and easy. No regex, no search and replace. Just clean, built-in tools.

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ifconfig -a| awk '/^wlan|^eth|^lo/ {;a=$1;FS=":"; nextline=NR+1; next}{ if (NR==nextline) { split($2,b," ")}{ if ($2 ~ /[0-9]\./) {print a,b[1]}; FS=" "}}'

2010-04-15 04:34:28

User: alf

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig awk IP

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Show interface/ip using awk

Interfaces like lo can be omitted from the beginning, there are probably better ways of doing this, i'm a noob at awk.

ip link show

2010-03-01 20:10:27

User: d34dh0r53

Functions: link

Tags: ifconfig grep

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Get all mac address

I prefer the ip command to ifconfig as ifconfig is supposedly going to be deprecated. Certain IP address aliases can only be seen with the ip command (such as the ones applied by RHCS).

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ifconfig | awk '/HWaddr/ { print $NF }'

2010-02-27 20:20:12

User: unixmonkey8473

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig grep

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Get all mac address

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ifconfig -a| grep -o -E '([[:xdigit:]]{1,2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{1,2}'

2010-02-27 14:30:43

User: evenme

Functions: grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig grep

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Get all mac address

Get mac address listed for all interfaces.

netstat -in

2010-02-04 15:24:58

User: mobidyc

Functions: netstat

Tags: ifconfig netstat hp-ux

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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

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for i in `lanscan -i | awk '{print $1}'` ; do ifconfig $i ; done

2010-01-28 17:46:56

User: foobarnl

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig hp-ux lanscan

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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

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perl -e '$_=`ifconfig eth0`;/\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+ /; print $&,"\n";'

2009-12-05 14:24:48

User: solarislackware

Functions: perl

Tags: bash ifconfig ip address

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Return IP Address

If you are interested in interfaces other than eth0 you will need to change eth0 to your interface name.

You could use this mammoth to nab the ip4 addresses of all your interfaces

perl -e '@_=`ifconfig -a`; sort(@_); foreach(@_) { /(inet addr\:)(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+ )/; $_=$2; @uniq=grep($_ ne $prev && (($prev) = $_), @_);} print join "\n",@uniq,"\n"; '

it seems silly to have all this code when the following will work fine

ifconfig -a | grep "inet " | awk -F":" ' { print $2 } ' | cut -d " " -f1

ifconfig -a| awk 'BEGIN{FS="[ :]+"} /Bcast/{print $4}'

2009-12-05 00:18:24

User: unixmonkey7109

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig cut ip address awk grep

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Return IP Address

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ifconfig -a|grep Bcast:|cut -d\: -f2|awk '{print $1}'

2009-12-04 21:00:46

User: metalx1000

Functions: awk cut grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig cut ip address awk grep

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Return IP Address

grabs your local IP Address.

ifconfig | awk '/HW/ {print $5}'

2009-11-05 18:00:50

User: Cont3mpo

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig awk print mac

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Get ethX mac addresses

Simple MAC adrress, thanks to ifconfig.

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ifconfig eth1 | grep inet\ addr | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/^/eth1:\ /g

2009-11-03 19:26:40

User: TuxOtaku

Functions: awk cut grep ifconfig sed

Tags: ifconfig sed awk grep cut regex networking

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Grab an interface's IP from ifconfig without screen clutter

Sometimes, you don't really care about all the other information that ifconfig spits at you (however useful it may otherwise be). You just want an IP. This strips out all the crap and gives you exactly what you want.

ifconfig -a | perl -nle'/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/ && print $1'

2009-07-31 09:49:17

User: sneaker

Functions: ifconfig perl

Tags: Network perl ifconfig IP

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

works on Linux and Solaris. I think it will work on nearly all *nix-es

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