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Get your local IP regardless of your network interface

Terminal - Get your local IP regardless of your network interface
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
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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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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
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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{ 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

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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 | 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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