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Commands using ifconfig

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localIP() { ifconfig ${1:--a} | sed '/Link encap\|inet\|6 addr/!d;s/Link encap.*$//;s/.*inet addr:\([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/g;s/.*inet6 addr: \(.*\) .*/\1/g' ; }
2011-03-20 04:59:54
User: vando
Functions: ifconfig sed
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Get your local/private IP

If you don't send an interface, it shows private IP address of all interfaces

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lsmac() { ifconfig -a | sed '/eth\|wl/!d;s/ Link.*HWaddr//' ; }
2011-03-19 12:41:38
User: vando
Functions: ifconfig sed
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List your MACs address
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ifconfig eth3|sed 's/^eth3.*HWaddr //;q'
2011-02-09 00:22:40
User: avedis
Functions: ifconfig sed
Tags: sed
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Reading my nic's mac address

Just replace eth3 with the interface you want the MAC for.

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ifconfig | grep eth | awk '{print $5}'
2011-02-02 20:42:22
User: diacus
Functions: awk grep ifconfig
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Reading my nic's mac address

This command is useful when you want to check your nic's mac address, if you're interested in your wireless interface, use its ID instead "eth".

This command was tested under Ubuntu and Slackware GNU/Linux.

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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 | grep "inet\ " | grep -v "127.0" | sed -e 's/inet\ addr://g' | sed -e 's/Bcast:/\ \ \ \ \ \ \ /g' | cut -c 1-29 | sed -e 's/\ //g'
2010-12-01 19:06:11
User: LinuxMan
Functions: cut grep ifconfig sed
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Get your local IP regardless of your network interface

short enough to be tweetable

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ifconfig | awk '/^eth0/ {print $5}'
2010-07-04 07:11:00
User: eth2net
Functions: awk ifconfig
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Get MAC address
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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.

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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 eth0 | perl -ne "print if m/inet addr:((\d+\.){3})+/" | sed "s/inet addr//" | sed "s/Bcast//" |awk -F: '{print $2}'
2010-06-26 12:07:15
User: aceiro
Functions: awk ifconfig perl sed
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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

only output the ip addres. I put double pipe with sed because not parse with operator OR (|) in redex.

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ifconfig eth0 | perl -ne 'print $1 if m/addr:((?:\d+\.){3}\d+)/'
2010-06-26 10:41:09
User: mensa13
Functions: ifconfig perl
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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts
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ifconfig eth0 | grep 'HWaddr' | awk '{print $5}' | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | sed -e 's/://g'
2010-06-26 05:35:03
User: minigeek
Functions: awk grep ifconfig sed tr
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Get the mac address of eth0 in uppercase minus the colons

This will get the mac address of the eth0 and change lowercase to uppercase.

The sed command removed the colons.

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ifconfig eth0 | grep 'HWaddr' | awk '{print $5}'
2010-06-26 05:24:31
User: minigeek
Functions: awk grep ifconfig
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mac address for eth0
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dhclient wlan0 && sbnt=$(ifconfig wlan0 |grep "inet addr" |cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d "." -f 1-3) && nmap $sbnt.0/24 -sP
2010-06-22 21:00:29
User: wltj
Functions: cut grep ifconfig
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Autofind alive hosts on subnet upon connect

This is helpful if you connect to several networks with different subnets such as 192 networks, 10 networks, etc. Cuts first three octets of ip from ifconfig command and runs nmap ping scan on that subnet.

Replace wlan0 with your interface. Assumes class c network, if class b use: cut -d "." -f 1-2 and change nmap command accordingly.

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UNIQUE_BY_MAC=$(ifconfig |grep eth0|awk '{ print strtonum("0x"substr($6,16,2)) }')
2010-06-01 17:34:43
User: rubo77
Functions: awk grep ifconfig
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Unique number by Mac Address

gets the last number of the mac address to use it for other stuff

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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.

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sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6
2010-03-30 21:48:55
User: rpavlick
Functions: ifconfig sudo
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Spoof your wireless MAC address on OS X to 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6

If you want to check that the spoof worked, type the same command as earlier:

ifconfig en1 | grep ether

Now you will see:

ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6

For the wired ethernet port:

sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6
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ifconfig | grep cast | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1
2010-03-28 02:15:34
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: cut grep ifconfig
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show your private/local ip address

Gets the IP addresses of all interfaces except loopback. Cuts out all of the extra text.

Shorter than the other options, and much easier to type.

'ifconfig | grep cast' is enough to get the IP address, but it doesn't strip the rest of the junk out.

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ifconfig | awk '/inet addr/ &&! /127.0.0.1/{ gsub(/addr:/,""); print $2 }'
2010-03-26 10:07:14
User: OJM
Functions: awk ifconfig
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show your private/local ip address
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ifconfig | sed '/.*addr.*Bcast.*/ ! d'| sed 's/.*addr:\([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/'
2010-03-26 08:13:13
User: Haegin
Functions: ifconfig sed
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show your private/local ip address

This doesn't make any assumptions about your IP address and prints out one IP address per line if you have multiple network interfaces.

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ifconfig | grep addr:192 | sed s/Bcast.*// | sed 's/^.*inet addr://'
2010-03-26 07:37:21
User: hasenj
Functions: grep ifconfig sed
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show your private/local ip address

This assumes your local ip starts with 192.something (e.g. 192.168), it greps ifconfig output for an ip that starts with 192, then strips the extra garbage (besides the ip)

Maybe `ifconfig | grep addr | grep Bcast` would also do it

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