I am using this cmd command to get all the MAC addresses of the machine:
ipconfig /all
The problem is that it prints all the information and provides no switch to print just the mac. It also prints information for many network interfaces. I am interested just for the active one - this is presumably the first one. My next attemp was to parse just the physical address:
ipconfig /all | findstr "Physical Address"
but this also prints Link-local IPv6 Address and IPv4 Address.
What how can I get just the MAC address from ipconfig? I'd love to have some grep functionality. Is there a native regex implemented in cmd?
Either of these commands will filter the literal "Physical Address" string:
ipconfig /all | find "Physical Address"
ipconfig /all | findstr /c:"Physical Address"
Since this could list more than one MAC address and the first one isn't necessarily the "active" one consider using PowerShell:
PS C:\> Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -filter "IPEnabled='true'" |select MACAddress
MACAddress
----------
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Related
I need to display connected Ethernet name.
I used the following command to get WLAN connected network (Wi-Fi).
C:\Users\User>netsh wlan show interface | findstr /i "SSID" name
SSID : HOME
BSSID : bc:62:d2:4a:a1:48
An error message is output if I run the following command next:
C:\Users\User>netsh lan show interface command
The Wired AutoConfig Service (dot3svc) is not running.
But after I started the service, I still do not get the active connected Ethernet name.
C:\Users\User>netsh lan show interface command
There is 1 interface on the system:
Name : Ethernet
Description : Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller
GUID : e901d916-86f4-4070-9941-47a9a325537a
Physical Address : 98-E7-43-0F-8F-84
State : Connected. Network does not support authentication.
Can anyone help me to get the Ethernet name Home on wired LAN connection?
The following command, entered directly in cmd, should display the name of the connected network profile(s), regardless of whether they are wired or wireless, on a Windows 8 / Server 2012 Operating System or newer.
For /F Tokens^=6^ Delims^=^" %G In ('%SystemRoot%\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe /NameSpace:\\Root\StandardCimv2 Path MSFT_NetConnectionProfile Where "IPv4Connectivity='4'" Get Name /Format:MOF 2^>NUL') Do #Echo %G
From a batch-file, for GUI double-click, it would look a little more like this:
#(For /F Tokens^=6^ Delims^=^" %%G In ('%SystemRoot%\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe
/NameSpace:\\Root\StandardCimv2 Path MSFT_NetConnectionProfile Where
"IPv4Connectivity='4'" Get Name /Format:MOF 2^>NUL') Do #Echo %%G) & Pause
I am writing a shell script which runs on cygwin console for windows, my scritp looks like this
#!/usr/bin/bash
cmd /c start /d "C:\cygwin\bin" ipconfig | findstr /R /C:"IPv4 Address"
ipconfig #to print
route add 10.2.139.1 192.168.104.1
But when i execute this script on cygwin console it shows below error and even i changed to ipconfig \all it doesn't work
Error: unrecognized or incomplete command line.
USAGE:
ipconfig [/allcompartments] [/? | /all |
i am trying to get ip address dynamically by executing the script and adding to the route table
Thanks,
Rohith
I don't know why you did this with cygwin instead of cmd.exe, what you use it for and why use start, but, all you missing is one option /b:
cmd /c start /d "C:\cygwin\bin" /b ipconfig | findstr /R /C:"IPv4 Address"
And start is redudant as follows:
cmd /c ipconfig | findstr /R /C:"IPv4 Address"
/b just suppresses the newly created cmd.exe background window.
I have a list of aliases defined in a command file (aliases.cmd) that I load whenver I run a command prompt (cmd.exe /k aliases.cmd). Using doskey, I have several aliases defined and I am trying to create one to show only my IP address. I came across this question with a lot of good ways to get an IP in a batch file but none of them seem to work via doskey. For example, I have this alias defined:
doskey ip=ipconfig | findstr /R /C:"IPv4 Address"
When I run it via the command prompt (excluding the doskey portion), it works and only returns the IPv4 address. However, via doskey and the "ip" keyword, it does not work and returns the regular output of "ipconfig".
Is there any way to get an IP address (and only the IP) on Windows via a doskey alias?
So after some study, the only way I could get this to work is the following.
doskey ip=ip.cmd
And ip.cmd has the following.
#echo off
ipconfig | findstr /R /C:"IPv4 Address"
I believe your problem was that you did not escape the pipe character, as with: doskey ip=ipconfig ^| findstr /R /C:"IPv4 Address"
I use 'ipconfig /all' or 'getmac /v' to get all NIC physical addresses.
But the problem is, generally a computer has more than one NIC card. Also, there are some virtual MAC addresses like Microsoft virtual wifi hotspot NIC which shows only when wifi hotspot is on.
So, how can I collect only the address corresponding to ethernet via cmd?
This command fetches MAC addresses of physical ethernet network devices:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter where "PNPDeviceID like '%PCI%' AND AdapterTypeID='0'" get name, MacAddress
if you want to fetch virtual ones as well then use this:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter where "AdapterTypeID='0'" get name, MacAddress
or this one for fetching all the MAC addresses of all network devices:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter get name, MacAddress
Just in case you are interested how it works:
We are using WMIC tool provided by Windows to fetch adapter info from Win32_NetworkAdapter.
Then filter ethernet adapters by AdapterTypeID=0 as 0 corresponds to ethernet type.
Finally filter physical devices with PNPDeviceID like '%PCI% since they are attached to PCI.
You might also want to look at the result of whole Win32_NetworkAdapter and play with it with this command:
wmic path Win32_NetworkAdapter
I advise to you use powershell because very powerful than cmd
Get-CimInstance win32_networkadapterconfiguration | select description, macaddress | where {$_.MACAddress -ne $n
ull }
output :
description macaddress
----------- ----------
RAS Async Adapter 20:41:53:59:4E:FF
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 18:03:73:65:64:AB
VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1 00:50:56:C0:00:01
VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8 00:50:56:C0:00:08
that command in powershell select all macaddress for device enable your machine that included vmware but we can do more filter for example
Get-CimInstance win32_networkadapterconfiguration | select description, macaddress | where {$_.MACAddress -ne $n
ull } | where {$_.Description -match "Realtek" }
output:
description macaddress
----------- ----------
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 18:03:73:65:64:AB
but if your just run in cmd you should encode this command in powershell like this
$script={ Get-CimInstance win32_networkadapterconfiguration | select description, macaddress | where {$_.MACAddr
ess -ne $null } | where {$_.Description -match "Realtek" } }
[System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes( $script))
output encoded command for use in cmd
IABHAGUAdAAtAEMAaQBtAEkAbgBzAHQAYQBuAGMAZQAgAHcAaQBuADMAMgBfAG4AZQB0AHcAbwByAGsAYQBkAGEAcAB0AGUAcgBjAG8AbgBmAGkAZwB1AHI
AYQB0AGkAbwBuACAAfAAgAHMAZQBsAGUAYwB0ACAAZABlAHMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACwAIABtAGEAYwBhAGQAZAByAGUAcwBzACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAH
IAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ATQBBAEMAQQBkAGQAcgBlAHMAcwAgAC0AbgBlACAAJABuAHUAbABsACAAfQAgACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAHIAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ARABlA
HMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACAALQBtAGEAdABjAGgAIAAiAFIAZQBhAGwAdABlAGsAIgAgAH0AIAA=
in cmd i use this and get mac
powershell -encodedcommand IABHAGUAdAAtAEMAaQBtAEkAbgBzAHQAYQBuA
GMAZQAgAHcAaQBuADMAMgBfAG4AZQB0AHcAbwByAGsAYQBkAGEAcAB0AGUAcgBjAG8AbgBmAGkAZwB1A
HIAYQB0AGkAbwBuACAAfAAgAHMAZQBsAGUAYwB0ACAAZABlAHMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACwAIABtA
GEAYwBhAGQAZAByAGUAcwBzACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAHIAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ATQBBAEMAQQBkAGQAcgBlA
HMAcwAgAC0AbgBlACAAJABuAHUAbABsACAAfQAgACAAfAAgAHcAaABlAHIAZQAgAHsAJABfAC4ARABlA
HMAYwByAGkAcAB0AGkAbwBuACAALQBtAGEAdABjAGgAIAAiAFIAZQBhAGwAdABlAGsAIgAgAH0AIAA=
output:
description macaddress
----------- ----------
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 18:03:73:65:64:AB
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL enabledelayedexpansion
FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN ('getmac /v ^|find /i "local area conn" ') DO (
FOR %%b IN (%%a) DO (
SET element=%%b
IF "!element:~2,1!!element:~5,1!!element:~8,1!"=="---" set mac=%%b
)
)
ECHO found %mac%
GOTO :EOF
This should provide the information required, but it would have been better had you provided sample output from your machine as your experience may not be exactly reproduced on others' installations.
on commandline:
for /f %i in ('wmic nic get MACAddress ^|find ":"') do #echo %i
or
for /f %i in ('getmac^|find "-"') do #echo %i
for use in a batchfile, use %%i instead of %i
To only get the active network card's MAC-address using Powershell:
(Get-WmiObject win32_networkadapterconfiguration -ComputerName $env:COMPUTERNAME | Where{$_.IpEnabled -Match "True"} | Select-Object -Expand macaddress) -join ","
You can try this :
netsh interface ip show addresses "Ethernet"
I am on a work computer with dynamic IP address (Ipv4), which usually changes when I restart it. Since I sometimes need to use this PC through remote desktop connection at home I like to keep its IP address handy. But I sometimes forget to check the IP at restart, so is there a batch file or some code which can start up the cmd and display the IPv4 address everytime the computer restarts ?
thanks.
Simple, just create a batch file that runs ipconfig and displays the output:
start cmd /k ipconfig
exit
You'll see a console window appear on your screen each time you execute this batch file that contains the output of the ipconfig command. Among the information displayed will be the IP address for each of your computer's network adapters.
You can configure the command as appropriate, adding switches to ipconfig as desired. For example, adding the /all switch will cause additional information to be displayed.
If you wanted, you could parse the output of ipconfig, extract the IP address assigned to a particular network adapter, and display just that on the screen. That might reduce the cognitive overload. But any good Windows sysadmin can scan the output of ipconfig rather easily.
You can set a batch file to run upon startup.
The batch file should contain:
ipconfig
pause
I used this in a .bat file I created some days ago and it works fine:
#echo off
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=:" %%a in ('ipconfig^|find "IPv4"') do set ip=%%b
set ip=%ip:~1%
echo %ip%
This way the IP is defined as a variable named "ip", so you can use this to do other things with your current IP.
I hope it helped somehow.