I am using
ifconfig | grep en0 -A 5 | grep 'inet ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2
to find my system's local ip address. I am certain there is a way to shorten this.
ipconfig getifaddr en0 assuming that en0 is the network interface you're using.
If you aren't sure...
ipconfig getifaddr `route -n get default | grep interface | awk '{print $2}'`
is pretty bulletproof, but loses the conciseness.
Not shorter, but useful too:
echo $(/usr/sbin/arp $(hostname) | awk -F'[()]' '{print $2}')
Previously I used the following command in bash to find the main ip of my server
ipaddr=$(/sbin/ifconfig|grep inet|head -1|sed 's/\:/ /'|awk '{print $3}' | grep -v '127.0.0.1')
But in centos7 it no longer works since ifconfig isn't available and the command no longer works even if I install ifconfig using yum install net-tools
What is the equivalent command for centos 7
Thanks a lot
You can use hostname command :
ipaddr=$(hostname -I)
-i, --ip-address:
Display the IP address(es) of the host. Note that this works only if the host name can be resolved.
-I, --all-ip-addresses:
Display all network addresses of the host. This option enumerates all configured addresses on all network interfaces. The loopback interface and IPv6 link-local addresses are omitted. Contrary to option -i, this option does not depend on name resolution. Do not make any assumptions about the order of the output.
Ref: https://garbagevalue.com/blog/4-simle-ways-to-check-ip-adress-in-centos-7
I'm using CentOS 7 and command
ip a
is enough to do the job.
Edit
Just slice out the IP address part from that test.
ip a | grep 192
Enter the command ip addr at the console
hostname -I | awk ' {print $1}'
Something like this - a riff on #maarten-vanlinthout's answer
ip -f inet a show eth0| grep inet| awk '{ print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1
SERVER_IP="$(ip addr show ens160 | grep 'inet ' | cut -f2 | awk '{ print $2}')"
replace ens160 with your interface name
You can run simple commands like
curl ifconfig.co
curl ifconfig.me
wget -qO - icanhazip.com
Actually, when you do not want to use external sources (or cannot), I would recommend:
DEVICE=$(ls -l /sys/class/net | awk '$NF~/pci0/ { print $(NF-2); exit }')
IPADDR=$(ip -br address show dev $DEVICE | awk '{print substr($3,1,index($3,"/")-1);}')
The first line gets the name of the first network device on the PCI bus, the second one gives you its IP address.
BTW ps ... | grep ... | awk ...
stinks. awk does not need grep.
Bit late however I use
curl -4 icanhazip.com
returns the server Primary IP address.
I believe that the most reliable way to get the external server ip address would be to use an external service.
ipaddr=$(curl -s http://whatismyip.akamai.com/)
Run this command to show ip4 and ip6:
ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1
I'm trying to find a short and robust way to put my IP address into a bash variable and was curious if there was an easier way to do this. This is how I am currently doing it:
ip=`ifconfig|xargs|awk '{print $7}'|sed -e 's/[a-z]*:/''/'`
I've been struggling with this too until I've found there's a simple command for that purpose
hostname -i
Is that simple!
man hostname recommends using the --all-ip-addresses flag (shorthand -I ), instead of -i, because -i works only if the host name can be resolved. So here it is:
hostname -I
And if you are interested only in the primary one, cut it:
hostname -I | cut -f1 -d' '
ip is the right tool to use as ifconfig has been deprecated for some time now. Here's an awk/sed/grep-free command that's significantly faster than any of the others posted here!:
ip=$(ip -f inet -o addr show eth0|cut -d\ -f 7 | cut -d/ -f 1)
(yes that is an escaped space after the first -d)
You can take a look at this site for alternatives.
One way would be:
ifconfig | grep 'inet addr:'| grep -v '127.0.0.1' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'
A bit smaller one, although it is not at all robust, and can return the wrong value depending on your system:
$ /sbin/ifconfig | sed -n '2 p' | awk '{print $3}'
(from http://www.htmlstaff.org/ver.php?id=22346)
The ifdata command (found in the moreutils package) provides an interface to easily retrieve ifconfig data without needing to parse the output from ifconfig manually. It's achieved with a single command:
ifdata -pa eth1
Where eth1 is the name of your network interface.
I don't know how this package behaves when ifconfig is not installed. As Syncrho stated in his answer, ifconfig has been deprecated for sometime, and is no longer found on a lot of modern distributions.
Here is the best way to get IP address of an device into an variable:
ip=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk 'NR==1 {print $NF}')
NB Update to support new Linux version. (works also with older)
ip=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk -F"src " 'NR==1{split($2,a," ");print a[1]}')
Why is it the best?
Hostname -I some times get only the IP or as on my VPS it gets 127.0.0.2 143.127.52.130 2a00:dee0:ed3:83:245:70:fc12:d196
Hostnmae -I does not work on all system.
Using ifconfig may not always give the IP you like.
a. It will fail you have multiple interface (wifi/etcernet) etc.
b. Main IP may not be on the first found interface
Searching of eth0 may fail if interface have other name as in VPS server or wifi
ip route get 8.8.8.8
Tries to get route and interface to Googles DNS server (does not open any session)
Then its easy to get the ip or interface name if you like.
This can also be used to get a ip address of an interface to a host on a multiruted net
my short version. Useful when you have multiple interface and just want the main ip.
host `hostname` | awk '{print $4}'
You can get just awk to do all the parsing of ifconfig:
ip=$(ifconfig | gawk '
/^[a-z]/ {interface = $1}
interface == "eth0" && match($0, /^.*inet addr:([.0-9]+)/, a) {
print a[1]
exit
}
')
Not really shorter or simpler, but it works for me:
ip=$(ip addr show eth0 | grep -o 'inet [0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+' | grep -o [0-9].*)
The following works on Mac OS (where there is no ip commnand or hostname options):
#!/bin/bash
#get interface used for defalt route (usually en0)
IF=$(route get default |grep 'interface' |awk -F: '{print $2}');
#get the IP address for inteface IF
#does ifconfig, greps for interface plus 5 lines, greps for line with 'inet '
IP=$(ifconfig |grep -A5 $IF | grep 'inet ' | cut -d: -f2 |awk '{print $2}');
#get the gateway for the default route
GW=$(route get default | awk '/gateway:/ {print $2}');
ifconfig | grep -oP "(?<=inet addr:).*?(?= Bcast)"
When using grep to extract a portion of a line (as some other answers do), perl look-ahead and look-behind assertions are your friends.
The quick explanation is that the first (?<=inet addr:) and last (?= Bcast) parenthesis contain patterns that must be matched, but the characters that match those patters won't be returned by grep, only the characters that are between the two patterns and match the pattern .*? that is found between the sets of parenthesis, are returned.
Sample ifconfig output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:67:e5:3f:b7:d3
inet addr:10.0.0.114 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1392392 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1197193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1294730881 (1.2 GB) TX bytes:167208753 (167.2 MB)
Interrupt:18
This will extract your IP address from the ifconfig output:
ifconfig | grep -oP "(?<=inet addr:).*?(?=Bcast)"
To assign that to a variable, use this:
ip=$(ifconfig | grep -oP "(?<=inet addr:).*?(?=Bcast)")
A slightly more in depth explanation:
From man grep:
-o Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of matching lines, with each such part on a separate output line.
-P Interpret the pattern as a Perl regular expression. This is highly experimental and ‘grep -P’ may warn of unimplemented features.
From permonks.org:
(?<=pattern) is a positive look-behind assertion
(?=pattern) is a positive look-ahead assertion
-o Tells grep to only return the portion of the line that matches the pattern. The look-behinds/aheads are not considered by grep to be part of the pattern that is returned. The ? after .* is important since we want it to look for the very next look-ahead after the .* pattern is matched, and not look for the last look-ahead match. (This is not needed if we added a regex for the IP address instead of .*, but, readability).
I am using
IFACE='eth0'
IP=$(ip -4 address show $IFACE | grep 'inet' | sed 's/.*inet \([0-9\.]\+\).*/\1/')
The advantage of this way is to specify the interface (variable IFACE in the example) in case you are using several interfaces on your host.
Moreover, you could modify ip command in order to adapt this snippet at your convenience (IPv6 address, etc).
I think the most reliable answer is :
ifconfig | grep 'inet addr:' | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | head -1
AND
hostname -I | awk -F" " '{print $1}'
because when you don't use head -1 it shows all ips....
In my script i did need only the network part of the IP, so I did it like that
local=$(hostname -I | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1,2,3 -d".")
Where the cut -f1,2,3 -d"." can be read as "get first 3 parts separated by commas"
To change interfaces just change $2 to your interface number, to get whole IP remove cut.
In trying to avoid too many pipes, work on various linuxes, set an exit code, and avoiding ifconfig or other packages, I tried the whole thing in awk:
ip addr show | awk '
BEGIN {FS="/"}
/^[0-9]+: eth[0-9]+.*UP*/ {ss=1}
ss==1 && /^ +inet / {print substr($1,10); exit 0}
END {exit 1}'
and note that a particular interface can be specified after "ip addr show" if you don't want just the first eth interface. And adapting to ipv6 is a matter of looking for "inet6" instead of "inet"...
On mac osx, you can use ipconfig getifaddr [interface] to get the local ip:
$ ipconfig getifaddr en0
192.168.1.30
$ man ipconfig
DESCRIPTION
ipconfig is a utility that communicates with the IPConfiguration agent to
retrieve and set IP configuration parameters. It should only be used in
a test and debug context. Using it for any other purpose is strongly
discouraged. Public API's in the SystemConfiguration framework are cur-
rently the only supported way to access and control the state of IPCon-
figuration.
...
getifaddr interface-name
Prints to standard output the IP address for the first net-
work service associated with the given interface. The output
will be empty if no service is currently configured or active
on the interface.
In my case I had some more interfaces in list before eth0. By this command you can get ip4 address for any interface. For that you need to change eth0 to interface that you need.
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'
The "eth3" is optional (useful for multiple NIC's)
ipaddress=`ip addr show eth3 | grep 'inet ' | awk '{ print $2}' | cut -d'/' -f1`
If by "my ip address" you mean "the IP address my machine will use to get to the public Internet to which I am connected", then this very tidy JSON answer may work for you, depending on what O/S your machine runs:
ip=$( ip -j route get 8.8.8.8 | jq -r '.[].prefsrc' )
It does require an ip command that produces JSON output (some say the BusyBox ip command cannot do this), the CLI jq parser that can extract fields from JSON input, and your machine has to know how to get to the public IP at 8.8.8.8.
If you want the IP address your machine would use to get to some other place, such as a local network, put that other IP in place of the public IP 8.8.8.8, e.g.
ip=$( ip -j route get 192.168.1.1 | jq -r '.[].prefsrc' )
ip=$( ip -j route get 10.1.2.3 | jq -r '.[].prefsrc' )
If you only have one interface, then most any non-localhost IP address should work to get your IP address.
Parsing the JSON output with jq is so much simpler than all those complex examples with sed, awk, and grep, but the more complex examples do use tools that are present by default on almost all Unix/Linux/BSD systems.
assuming you have something like curl or wget, then one easy way to get external IP addresses with no downstream parsing necessary would be :
— (wildcard syntax for wget might differ)
curl -w '\n\n%{url_effective}\n\n' -s 'http://api{,6}.ipify.org'
98.xxx.132.255
http://api.ipify.org/
2603:7000:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:c80f:1351:390d
http://api6.ipify.org/
Yielding both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in one shot
Context:
On *nix systems, one may get the IP address of the machine in a shell script this way:
ifconfig | grep 'inet' | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'
Or this way too:
ifconfig | grep 'inet' | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/addr://'
Question:
Would there be a more straightforward, still portable, way to get the IP address for use in a shell script?
(my apologies to *BSD and Solaris users as the above command may not work; I could not test)
you can do it with just one awk command. No need to use too many pipes.
$ ifconfig | awk -F':' '/inet addr/&&!/127.0.0.1/{split($2,_," ");print _[1]}'
you give direct interface thereby reducing one grep.
ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'
Based on this you can use the following command
ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk 'NR==1 {print $NF}'
Look here at the Beej's guide to networking to obtain the list of sockets using a simple C program to print out the IP addresses using getaddrinfo(...) call. This simple C Program can be used in part of the shell script to just print out the IP addresses available to stdout which would be easier to do then rely on the ifconfig if you want to remain portable as the output of ifconfig can vary.
Hope this helps,
Best regards,
Tom.
ifconfig | grep 'broadcast\|Bcast' | awk -F ' ' {'print $2'} | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/addr://g'
May be this could help.
more /etc/hosts | grep `hostname` | awk '{print $1}'
# for bash/linux
ipaddr(){
if="${1:-eth0}"
result=$(/sbin/ip -o -4 addr show dev "${if}" | sed 's/^.*inet // ; s/\/...*$//')
printf %s "${result}"
tty -s && printf "\n"
}
Simple Question:
How do I grab the MAC address of the active Ethernet connection in a bash script?
I currently have:
set - `/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -1`
MAC=$5
Which outputs the MAC address of the eth0, but if it's eth1 that's active, I want that instead.
Could I beforehand execute ifconfig | grep inet but that wouldn't tell me which interface is active, just that one is active. I need to grab the line above it to tell me which one is the active connection.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Found the answer:
set - `ifconfig | grep -B 1 inet | head -1`
MAC=$5
I grep'd the inet string and returned the line before. Then use head to grab the first line.
you could do something like this
ifconfig | awk '/eth/ { print $5 }'
also an option... depending on user may need to specify /sbin/ifconfig in the xargs
route | awk '/default/ { print $NF }' | xargs -I {} ifconfig {} | awk '/HWaddr/ { print $5 }'