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 looking through ifconfig
?
You can write a script that only return the IP like:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'
For MAC:
ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | cut -d\ -f2
Or for linux system
hostname -i | awk '{print $3}' # Ubuntu
hostname -i # Debian