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Commands using ifconfig

Terminal - Commands using ifconfig - 88 results

ifconfig | awk '/inet addr/ {print $2 }' | sed 's/.*://g'

2010-03-04 08:15:08

User: Guyverix

Functions: awk ifconfig sed

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simple echo of IPv4 IP addresses assigned to a machine

Easy way to grab the IP address of a machine for easy script use. If needed a "| grep -v 127.0.0.1" at the end will suppress localhost.

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.

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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for i in `netstat -rn |grep lan |cut -c55-60 |sort |uniq`; do ifconfig $i; done

2010-01-28 17:35:20

User: Kaio

Functions: cut grep ifconfig sort

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Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX

HP UX doesn't have a -a switch in the ifconfig command.

This line emulates the same result shown in Solaris, AIX or Linux

ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.1/24

2010-01-12 11:57:11

User: glaudiston

Functions: ifconfig

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share internet connection with only one network interface

the below command create a alias for share your internet connection with another.

ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.1/24

Its obviously necessary too activate the iptables post-routing and ip forwarding, as root:

modprobe iptable_nat iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Be sure that the alias 192.168.0.0/24 is not your active real ip range

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ifconfig | grep -B 1 "inet addr:" | head -1 | cut -d" " -f1

2010-01-04 23:02:57

User: jasonwalsh

Functions: cut grep head ifconfig

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Get name of first configured interface

Get the line containing "inet addr:" and the line before that, get down to only the first line, and then get the first word on that line, which should be the interface.

ifconfig -l | xargs -n1 ipconfig getifaddr 2> /dev/null

2009-12-28 22:45:45

User: w216

Functions: ifconfig xargs

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Read just the IP address of a device

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ipcalc $(ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -d':' -f2,4 | sed 's/.+Bcast:/\//g') | awk '/Network/ { print $2 } '

2009-12-05 15:00:32

User: solarislackware

Functions: awk cut grep ifconfig sed

Tags: Network

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Show Network IP and Subnet

same thing as the other

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awk '/inet end/ {print $3}' <(ifconfig eth0)

2009-12-05 10:45:31

User: voyeg3r

Functions: awk ifconfig

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Return IP Address

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ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet:" | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f1

2009-12-05 02:59:18

User: guelfoweb

Functions: cut grep ifconfig

Tags: ip address

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Show local IP

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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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sudo ifconfig -a | grep eth | grep HW | cut -d' ' -f11

2009-11-04 19:24:35

User: foolano

Functions: cut grep ifconfig sudo

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Get ethX mac addresses

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.

ips(){ for if in ${1:-$(ip link list|grep '^.: '|cut -d\ -f2|cut -d: -f1)};do cur=$(ifconfig $if|grep "inet addr"|sed 's/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g');printf '%-5s%-15s%-15s\n' $if $cur $(nc -s $cur sine.cluenet.org 128 2>/dev/null||echo $cur);done;}

2009-08-07 10:04:46

User: frozenfire

Functions: cut echo grep ifconfig link sed

Tags: Linux IP ip address

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Get internal and external IP addresses

Gets the internal and external IP addresses of all your interfaces, or the ones given as arguments

ifconfig $devices | grep "inet addr" | sed 's/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g'

2009-08-06 21:43:22

User: matthewbauer

Functions: grep ifconfig sed

Tags: internal ip

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Get your internal IP address and nothing but your internal IP address

Will return your internal IP address.

ifconfig | grep "0xffffffff" | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs -n 1 ifconfig em0 delete

2009-08-04 05:18:36

User: vwal

Functions: awk grep ifconfig xargs

Tags: Network bsd FreeBSD aliases rc.conf

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Delete all aliases for a network interface on a (Free)BSD system

The example command deletes all aliases for network interface 'em0' assuming that the aliases have netmask of 255.255.255.255 and the master IP has some other netmask (such as 255.255.255.0). See here -> http://my.galagzee.com/2009/07/22/deleting-all-network-interface-aliases/ for more on the rationale of this command.

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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

ifconfig | awk '/ddr:[0-9]/ {sub(/addr:/, ""); print $2}'

2009-07-31 09:30:54

User: danny_b85

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: Linux ifconfig

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

The initial version of this command also outputted extra empty lines, so it went like this:

192.168.166.48

127.0.0.1

This happened on Ubuntu, i haven't tested on anything else.

ifconfig | awk -F':| +' '/ddr:/{print $4}'

2009-07-25 22:51:08

User: 0x89

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: Linux ifconfig

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

and, a lot uglier, with sed:

ifconfig | sed -n '/inet addr:/s/[^:]\+:$\S\+$.*/\1/p'

Edit:

Wanted to be shorter than the perl version. Still think that the perl version is the best..

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ifconfig | grep "inet [[:alpha:]]\+" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d' ' -f2

2009-07-24 13:16:37

User: feraf

Functions: cut grep ifconfig

Tags: Linux ifconfig

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

Get the IP address of all your network cards.

ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1

2009-07-24 09:39:19

User: trungtm

Functions: cut grep ifconfig

Tags: Linux ifconfig

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

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ifconfig | perl -nle'/dr:(\S+)/ && print $1'

2009-07-23 09:33:31

User: xsawyerx

Functions: ifconfig perl

Tags: Linux perl ifconfig

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

Fetches the IPs and ONLY the IPs from ifconfig. Simplest, shortest, cleanest.

Perl is too good to be true...

(P.S.: credit should go to Peteris Krumins at catonmat.net)

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