Utility to get IP address of the machine

[Andrew DeFaria]

Bernhard Ege wrote:
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> I use my getip.sh script (windows xp):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # find default gateways
> # select the one with the lowest metric
> ip=`route print | egrep "^ +0.0.0.0 +0.0.0.0 +" | gawk 'BEGIN { 
> metric=255; ip="0.0.0.0"; } { if ( $5 < metric ) { ip=$4; metric=$5; } 
> } END { printf("%s\n",ip); }'`
> echo Current ip is $ip 1>&2
> echo $ip
>
> Seems to do the job fine on my setup :-)

Why not the more simple:

ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | awk '{print $NF}'



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