I\'m trying to use just the IP address (inet) as a parameter in a script I wrote.
Is there an easy way in a unix terminal to get just the IP address, rather than loo
ip addr|awk '/eth0/ && /inet/ {gsub(/\/[0-9][0-9]/,""); print $2}'
shows all your ips
Few answers appear to be using the newer ip
command (replacement for ifconfig
) so here is one that uses ip addr
, grep
, and awk
to simply print the IPv4 address associated with the wlan0
interface:
ip addr show wlan0|grep inet|grep -v inet6|awk '{print $2}'|awk '{split($0,a,"/"); print a[1]}'
While not the most compact or fancy solution, it is (arguably) easy to understand (see explanation below) and modify for other purposes, such as getting the last 3 octets of the MAC address like this:
ip addr show wlan0|grep link/ether|awk '{print $2}'|awk '{split($0,mac,":"); print mac[4] mac[5] mac[6]}'
Explanation: ip addr show wlan0
outputs information associated with the network interface named wlan0
, which should be similar to this:
4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether dc:a6:32:04:06:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.18.18.1/24 brd 172.18.18.255 scope global noprefixroute wlan0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::d340:5e4b:78e0:90f/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Next grep inet
filters out the lines that don't contain "inet" (IPv4 and IPv6 configuration) and grep -v inet6
filters out the remaining lines that do contain "inet6", which should result in a single line like this one:
inet 172.18.18.1/24 brd 172.18.18.255 scope global noprefixroute wlan0
Finally, the first awk
extract the "172.18.18.1/24" field and the second removes the network mask shorthand, leaving just the IPv4 address.
Also, I think it's worth mentioning that if you are scripting then there are often many richer and/or more robust tools for obtaining this information, which you might want to use instead. For example, if using Node.js there is ipaddr-linux, if using Ruby there is linux-ip-parser, etc.
See also https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119269/how-to-get-ip-address-using-shell-script
Use the following command:
/sbin/ifconfig $(netstat -nr | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}') | awk -F: '/inet /{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d ' '
use this one line script:
ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1|awk 'match($0, /([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)/) {print substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH)}'
mac & linux (tested in ubuntu) both works.
In man hostname
there is even more easier way which automatically excluding loopback IP and showing only space separated list of all assigned to host ip addresses:
root@srv:~# hostname --all-ip-addresses
11.12.13.14 192.168.15.19
root@srv:~# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: venet0: <BROADCAST,POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/void
inet 11.12.13.14/32 scope global venet0:0
inet 192.168.15.19/32 scope global venet0:1
On Redhat 64bit, this solved problem for me.
ifconfig $1|sed -n 2p|awk '{ print $2 }'|awk -F : '{ print $2 }'