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Get all IPs via ifconfig

works on Linux and Solaris. I think it will work on nearly all *nix-es Show Sample Output
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```
10.200.10.147
127.0.0.1
```
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ifconfig -a | perl -nle'/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/ && print $1'

sneaker · 2009-07-31 09:49:17 9
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) Show Sample Output
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```
10.200.10.147
127.0.0.1
```
11

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

xsawyerx · 2009-07-23 09:33:31 11
Measures download speed on eth0
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10

while true; do X=$Y; sleep 1; Y=$(ifconfig eth0|grep RX\ bytes|awk '{ print $2 }'|cut -d : -f 2); echo "$(( Y-X )) bps"; done

stuntdawg · 2009-03-27 08:26:39 10
sends your internal IP by email

This is useful if you have need to do port forwarding and your router doesn't assign static IPs, you can add it to a script in a cron job that checks if you IP as recently changed or with a trigger script. This was tested on Mac OSX.
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10

ifconfig en1 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | mail -s "hello world" email@email.com

rez0r · 2009-04-28 06:01:52 13
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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6

ip link show

d34dh0r53 · 2010-03-01 20:10:27 5
Get all mac address
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5

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

unixmonkey8473 · 2010-02-27 20:20:12 7
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. Show Sample Output
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```
lo 127.0.0.1
wlan0 192.168.1.100
```
5

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=" "}}'

alf · 2010-04-15 04:34:28 19
Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

I've been using it in a script to build from scratch proxy servers. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.0.1
```
5

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

jaimerosario · 2010-06-29 00:06:08 5
Highlight network TX, RX information change
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5

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

totti · 2011-08-16 10:29:34 5
grep expression (perl regex) to extract all ip addresses from both ip and ifconfig commands output

It uses the following GNU grep options: "-o" which shows only the matching part of the line and "-P" which allows the use of Perl regular expressions. Show Sample Output
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```
[root@docker ~]# ip a | grep -oP '(?<=inet |addr:)(?:\d+\.){3}\d+'
127.0.0.1
10.0.2.15
172.17.0.1

[root@docker ~]# ifconfig  | grep -oP '(?<=inet |addr:)(?:\d+\.){3}\d+'
96.126.108.191
192.168.135.145
127.0.0.1
```
4

ip a | grep -oP '(?<=inet |addr:)(?:\d+\.){3}\d+'

acavagni · 2019-03-21 20:53:06 44
Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.
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3

/sbin/ifconfig -a | awk '/(cast)/ { print $2 }' | cut -d':' -f2 | head -1

d4n3sh · 2009-04-15 06:44:18 16
Get all mac address

Get mac address listed for all interfaces. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ifconfig -a| grep -o -E '([[:xdigit:]]{1,2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{1,2}'
00:25:4b:a2:45:72
00:25:4b:89:98:a0
00:25:4b:ff:fe:a2
0a:00:27:00:00:00
```
3

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

evenme · 2010-02-27 14:30:43 7
Grab the first 3 octets of your ip addresses

For machines that have many ip blocks spanning different Class C's, this will show which ones. Show Sample Output
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```
chris@golf:~$ ifconfig | awk -F: '/inet addr:/ { sub(/\.[^.]+$/, "", $2); if (!seen[$2]++ && $2 != "127.0.0") print $2 }'
192.68.34
192.42.21
192.91.43
```
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ifconfig | awk -F: '/inet addr:/ { sub(/\.[^.]+$/, "", $2); if (!seen[$2]++ && $2 != "127.0.0") print $2 }'

chrismccoy · 2016-09-01 14:02:43 18
Quick and dirty hardware summary

Quick and dirty hardware summary where lshw is not available. Requires util-linux, procps, pciutils, usbutils and net-tools, which should be preinstalled on most systems.
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alias gethw='(printf "\nCPU\n\n"; lscpu; printf "\nMEMORY\n\n"; free -h; printf "\nDISKS\n\n"; lsblk; printf "\nPCI\n\n"; lspci; printf "\nUSB\n\n"; lsusb; printf "\nNETWORK\n\n"; ifconfig) | less'

lordtoran · 2021-04-03 00:41:12 457
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. Show Sample Output
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```
eth1: 192.168.100.73
```
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ifconfig eth1 | grep inet\ addr | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/^/eth1:\ /g

BoxingOctopus · 2009-11-03 19:26:40 10
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 | grep 'inet addr' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1

atoponce · 2010-06-26 22:36:21 4
NICs, IPs, and Mac

Needed to get the Mac of various devices on a solaris box, but didn't have root. This command used awk to display the Network device, the IP, and the MAC a line at a time.
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ifconfig -a | nawk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}{RS="\n"}{ if($1~ /:/) {printf "%s ", $1}}{ if($1=="inet") {print " -- ",system("arp "$2)}}'|egrep -v "^[0-9]$"

leprasmurf · 2009-03-02 23:15:13 10
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 | awk -F':| +' '/ddr:/{print $4}'

0x89 · 2009-07-25 22:51:08 4
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. Show Sample Output
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```
ifconfig | awk '/ddr:[0-9]/ {sub(/addr:/, ""); print $2}'
192.168.1.23
127.0.0.1
```
1

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

danny_b85 · 2009-07-31 09:30:54 3
Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX
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for i in `lanscan -i | awk '{print $1}'` ; do ifconfig $i ; done

foobarnl · 2010-01-28 17:46:56 7
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.*$/\1/ # remove everything exept between : and B
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ifconfig|sed '/inet/!d;/127.0/d;/dr:\s/d;s/^.*:$.*$B.*$/\1/'

marssi · 2010-12-01 21:08:29 13
Get your IP addresses

Shows the interface and the ip-address Show Sample Output
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```
eth0    : 192.168.2.126
lo      : 127.0.0.1
```
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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] }

gismo82 · 2010-12-14 15:38:25 5
List your interfaces and MAC addresses
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ifconfig | grep HWaddr | awk '{print $1,$5}'

jaimerosario · 2011-05-28 23:12:01 4
Get all IPs via ifconfig
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ifconfig | awk '/inet / {sub(/addr:/, "", $2); print $2}'

snahor · 2011-12-07 22:27:14 5

Command is properly working on HP-UX 11.31 Show Sample Output

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

giorger · 2011-12-16 09:49:03 7

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