How to display IP address of eth0 interface using a shell script?

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How can I display the IP address shown on eth0 using a script ?

score 50 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '14 at 02:16

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For the sake of providing another option, you could use the ip addr command this way to get the IP address:

ip addr show eth0 | grep "inet\b" | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1

ip addr show eth0 shows information about eth0
grep "inet\b" only shows the line that has the IPv4 address (if you wanted the IPv6 address, change it to "inet6\b")
awk '{print $2}' prints on the second field, which has the ipaddress/mask, example 172.20.20.15/25
cut -d/ -f1 only takes the IP address portion.

In a script:

#!/bin/bash
theIPaddress=$(ip addr show eth0 | grep "inet\b" | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1)

answered Dec 12 '14 at 02:16

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this solution actually works! – thang Nov 14 '18 at 23:10
ip -4 ... and ip -6 ...! Thank you! – TamusJRoyce May 22 '19 at 18:12
`ip addr show eth0 | grep -P "inet6?\b" | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1` will print both IPv4 and IPv6. – Artem Russakovskii Jun 04 '20 at 08:14

Alex Jones · Answer 2 · 2020-10-31T17:09:46.367

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Note: This answer is for older systems. If this does not work for you please consider other answers. This answer is not incorrect.

save this in a file and then run bash <filename>

#!/bin/bash
ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr"

being more accurate to get only number showing IP address:

#!/bin/bash
ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1

Update: If this doesn't works for you, try the other answer

Update: For Ubuntu 18+, try: (don't forget to replace eth0 with interface you need the IP for. Thanks to @ignacio )

ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'

edited Oct 31 '20 at 17:09

answered Dec 11 '14 at 23:00

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of course this doesn't work in the latest ubuntu. the latest ifconfig returns "inet " instead of "inet addr " – thang Nov 14 '18 at 23:10
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you can just use `grep "inet"` – Andrei Radulescu Nov 10 '19 at 15:11
here is an updated solution for ifconfig version "net-tools 2.10-alpha" : ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet" | grep -v "inet6" | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 – Maxime Ancelin Feb 13 '20 at 09:03
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@MaximeAncelin you should add new answer for this – Alex Jones Feb 13 '20 at 09:57
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quick update for `Ubuntu 18.04`: `ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'` – ignacio Oct 28 '20 at 16:55

score 27 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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Taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/14910952/1695680

hostname -i

However that may return a local ip address (127.0.0.1), so you may have to use, and filter:

hostname -I

From hostname's manpages:

-i, --ip-address

Display the network address(es) of the host name. Note that this works only if the host name can be resolved. Avoid using this option; use hostname --all-ip-addresses instead.

-I, --all-ip-addresses

Display all network addresses of the host. This option enumerates all configured addresses on all network inter‐faces. 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.

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answered Mar 09 '16 at 20:01

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for the record, I like `ip addr show label 'enp*'` better, but I is annoying parse, something like `ip addr show label 'enp*' | grep -oP inet\ \\S+ | cut -d' ' -f2` can work... how pretty – ThorSummoner Nov 20 '18 at 23:37
`ip route | grep default | grep -oP 'dev \S+' | cut -d' ' -f 2 | xargs ip addr show dev | grep -oP 'inet6? \S+'` – ThorSummoner Apr 11 '20 at 01:43

Seamus · Answer 4 · 2023-02-23T23:07:16.083

You should use ip (instead of ifconfig) as it's current, maintained, and perhaps most importantly for scripting purposes, it produces a consistent & parsable output. Following are a few similar approaches:

If you want the IPv4 address for your Ethernet interface eth0:

$ ip -4 -o addr show eth0 | awk '{print $4}'
192.168.1.166/24

As a script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash  
INTFC=eth0  
MYIPV4=$(ip -4 -o addr show $INTFC | awk '{print $4}') 
echo $MYIPV4

will yield: 192.168.1.166/24 as its output

The output produced above is in CIDR notation. If CIDR notation isn't wanted, it can be stripped:

$ ip -4 -o addr show eth0 | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d "/" -f 1 
192.168.1.166

Another option that IMHO is "most elegant" gets the IPv4 address for whatever interface is used to connect to the specified remote host (8.8.8.8 in this case). Courtesy of @gatoatigrado in this answer:

$ ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk '{ print $NF; exit }'
192.168.1.166

Or, as a script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash  
RHOST=8.8.8.8  
MYIP=$(ip route get $RHOST | awk '{ print $NF; exit }')
echo $MYIP

will yield: 192.168.1.166 as its output

This works perfectly well on a host with a single interface, but more advantageously will also work on hosts with multiple interfaces and/or route specifications.

While ip would be my preferred approach, it's certainly not the only way to skin this cat. Here's another approach that uses hostname if you prefer something easier/more concise:

$ hostname --all-ip-addresses | awk '{print $1}'

Or, if you want the IPv6 address:

$ hostname --all-ip-addresses | awk '{print $2}'

As a script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
MYV4IP=$(hostname --all-ip-addresses | awk '{print $1}') 
MYV6IP=$(hostname --all-ip-addresses | awk '{print $2}')
echo $MYV4IP
echo $MYV6IP

will yield: 192.168.1.166, and 2601:7c1:103:b27:352e:e151:c7d8:3379 as its answers (assuming you have an IPv6 address assigned).

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 14 '16 at 01:43

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@markus-lindberg 's response is my favourite. If you add -o -4 to ip's flags then you get a much more easily parsable (and consistent) output:

ip -o -4 a | awk '$2 == "eth0" { gsub(/\/.*/, "", $4); print $4 }'

-o stands for --oneline, which is meant to help in exactly this kind of situations. The -4 is added to limit to the IPv4 address, which is what all the other responses imply.

answered Jun 14 '16 at 01:43

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Love the `ip` flags. Using `cut` rather than advanced `awk` wizardry: ```ip -o -4 addr show eth0 scope global | awk '{print $4;}' | cut -d/ -f 1``` – Dawngerpony Dec 16 '16 at 14:03
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@DuffJ it's probably down to a matter of personal taste. I "discovered" `cut` way after I learned about `awk`, and I like minimising the number of commands on my pipelines. Nice suggestion in any case. – Capt. Crunch Dec 17 '16 at 06:55
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I completely agree, Amos. Thanks for your solution! – Dawngerpony Dec 19 '16 at 12:34
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Very helpful. This should be the accepted answer, and this is not using the deprecated `ifconfig` which needs you to explicitly install `net-tools` in Ubuntu. – Haris Jun 11 '20 at 17:28

Avinash Raj · Answer 6 · 2014-12-12T08:07:06.270

Here are some oneliners.....

Awk

ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet addr/{split($2,a,":"); print a[2]}'

split function in the above awk command splits the second column based on the delimiter : and stores the splitted value into an associative array a. So a[2] holds the value of the second part.

sed

ifconfig eth0 | sed -n '/inet addr/s/.*inet addr: *\([^[:space:]]\+\).*/\1/p'

In basic sed , $...$ called capturing group which is used to capture the characters. We could refer those captured characters through back-referencing. $[^[:space:]]\+$ captures any character but not space one or more times.

grep

ifconfig eth0 | grep -oP 'inet addr:\K\S+'

\K discards the previously matched characters from printing at the final and \S+ matches one or more non-space characters.

Perl

ifconfig eth0 | perl -lane 'print $1 if /inet addr:(\S+)/'

One or more non-space characters which are next to the inet addr: string are captured and finally we print those captured characters only.

@edwardtorvalds added some explanation. I think this would be helpful for future readers. Feel free to ask any questions from the above commands... :) — Avinash Raj, Dec 12 '14 at 08:07

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 13 '18 at 12:04

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here's for IPv4:

ip -f inet a|grep -oP "(?<=inet ).+(?=\/)"

here's for IPv4 & particular dev (eth0):

ip -f inet a show eth0|grep -oP "(?<=inet ).+(?=\/)"

for IPv6:

ip -6 -o a|grep -oP "(?<=inet6 ).+(?=\/)"

answered Feb 13 '18 at 12:04

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score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Jun 14 '16 at 02:19

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ip addr|awk '/eth0/ && /inet/ {gsub(/\/[0-9][0-9]/,""); print $2}'

This only use ip addr which is a replacement for ifconfig and awk combined with substitution (gsub).

Stop using too many processes for simple tasks

edited Jun 14 '16 at 02:19

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answered Oct 23 '15 at 08:42

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score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 02 '16 at 12:43

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Just one more option that can be useful if you don't have awk (as it is the case in some embedded devices):

ip addr show dev eth0 scope global | grep "inet\b" | cut -d/ -f 1 | egrep -o "([[:digit:]]{1,3}[.]{1}){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}"

answered Aug 02 '16 at 12:43

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score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Jul 18 '17 at 19:10

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Here's a good one, only uses grep as secondary command:

ip addr show eth0 | grep -oP 'inet \K\S[0-9.]+'

I don't see why you should use more commands than needed

answered Jul 18 '17 at 19:10

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score 2 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 10 '17 at 20:58

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ifconfig eth0|grep 'inet '|awk '{print $2}'

answered Nov 10 '17 at 20:58

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score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Jul 08 '19 at 23:07

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Yet another way (assuming you don't want a CIDR address and want IPv4):

$ ip -br -4 addr show dev eth0 | awk '{split($3,a,"/"); print a[1]}'

Uses the ip command which is not deprecated
Uses only one command for filtering

answered Jul 08 '19 at 23:07

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Sandeep · Answer 13 · 2016-04-10T18:59:14.167

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I suggest using a python library like netifaces that is specifically designed for this purpose.

sudo pip install netifaces
python -c "import netifaces; print netifaces.ifaddresses('eth0')[netifaces.AF_INET][0]['addr']"

To obtain the default network interface that is in use.

default_inf = netifaces.gateways()['default'][netifaces.AF_INET][1]

edited Apr 10 '16 at 18:59

answered Apr 09 '16 at 00:34

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Matheus Baldasso · Answer 14 · 2017-07-07T19:27:02.013

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this can be used with a normal user too.

ip addr show eth0 | grep "inet " | cut -d '/' -f1 | cut -d ' ' -f6

edited Jul 07 '17 at 19:27

answered Mar 24 '17 at 19:34

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he ask for eth0, this version of your script could help (also show loopback tho) `ip addr show | grep "inet " | cut -d '/' -f1 | cut -d ' ' -f6` – TiloBunt Mar 25 '17 at 17:01
This is pretty much the same answer as https://askubuntu.com/a/560466/367990, just using `cut` twice instead of a combination of `awk` and `cut` to parse the output. Next time you should better check out all other answers first and ensure you don't post a duplicate solution. In this case here, I think it's arguable whether it's a duplicate or just similar, so please take it as a general hint. Thanks. – Byte Commander Jul 07 '17 at 19:49

score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Oct 26 '17 at 07:28

in these days with multiples interfaces (eg if you use a docker) and naming interface by ETH is not anymore the norms

I use this command to extract the IP/Mask :

IPMASK=$(ip a s|grep -A8 -m1 MULTICAST|grep -m1 inet|cut -d' ' -f6)

So whatever how many interfaces I'll have and whatever their name, GREP will only grab the first having the MULTICAST option.

I use this command to extract only the IP without the mask :

IP=$(ip a s|grep -A8 -m1 MULTICAST|grep -m1 inet|cut -d' ' -f6|cut -d'/' -f1)

I use these command on different BDS & NIX it never fail ;)

If you're going to parse the output of `ip`, use the `-o` option. — muru, Oct 26 '17 at 08:31

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Apr 12 '21 at 02:20

If eth0 has multiple IPs and you are looking for a public one here is an example of ignoring the 2 most common internal IP address ranges.

ip -4 addr show eth0 | grep -oP '(?<=inet\s)\d+(\.\d+){3}' | grep --invert-match -P '^(10\.|192\.168\.)'

This ignores 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16 IPs.

score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Mar 10 '23 at 07:52

Yes, you can do it like the other entries suggest, but you can also do it like a bauss:

#!/bin/bash
#
# IPs Table

type column &>/dev/null || apt-get install -yq bsdextrautils

links() { ip link | awk '/^[0-9]+:/ { sub(":", "", $2); sub("@.*", "", $2 ); print $2; }'; }
ipof()  { ip addr show ${1:-enp6s0} | awk ' /link.ether/ { print "mac", $2 }
                                           /inet6*/ { print $1, $2 }'; }
( echo dev inet inet6 mac
for i in `links`; do
    unset ips a b c d
    ips=$(ipof $i)
    if [[ -z $ips ]]; then
        mac=.
        inet=.
        inet6=.
    else
        read -s -r -d ';' _ mac _ inet _ inet6 <<< "$ips;"
        if [[ -z $inet6 ]] && [[ $inet =~ :: ]]; then
            inet6=$inet
            inet=
        fi
    fi
    echo $i ${inet:--} ${inet6:--} ${mac:--}
done; ) | column -t

The script is from my collection

Sample output A:

dev       inet              inet6                         mac
lo        127.0.0.1/8       ::1/128                       00:00:00:00:00:00
enp6s0    192.168.0.4/24    fe80::aaa1:59ff:fe50:85ea/64  a8:a1:59:50:85:ea
enp4s0d1  -                 -                             24:8a:07:6b:5d:52
ibp4s0    -                 -                             80:00:02:20:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:24:8a:07:03:00:6b:5d:51
virbr0    192.168.122.1/24  -                             52:54:00:f3:77:52
virbr1    192.168.39.1/24   -                             52:54:00:cf:77:c6
vboxnet0  -                 -                             0a:00:27:00:00:00
vboxnet1  -                 -                             0a:00:27:00:00:01
vboxnet2  -                 -                             0a:00:27:00:00:02
vboxnet3  -                 -                             0a:00:27:00:00:03
vboxnet4  -                 -                             0a:00:27:00:00:04

Sample output B:

dev              inet             inet6                         mac
lo               127.0.0.1/8      ::1/128                       00:00:00:00:00:00
ens3             10.40.237.34/18  fe80::8de:f6ff:fe19:f315/64   0a:de:f6:19:f3:15
lxcbr0           172.16.0.1/16    fe80::216:3eff:fe00:0/64      00:16:3e:00:00:00
vaf.sta.RsuBSCQ  -                fe80::fc91:4fff:fed1:6adc/64  fe:91:4f:d1:6a:dc
vaf.cra.G4EHHKb  -                fe80::fc47:69ff:fe86:abc6/64  fe:47:69:86:ab:c6
vaf.com.t2VC1vD  -                fe80::fc25:cff:fec5:515b/64   fe:25:0c:c5:51:5b
vaf.lor.cXYkGKF  -                fe80::fce8:6dff:fed1:8d08/64  fe:e8:6d:d1:8d:08
vaf.iff.2I4P4ay  -                fe80::fca0:6dff:fe33:e198/64  fe:a0:6d:33:e1:98
vaf.bag.etDqGZ3  -                fe80::fca6:c9ff:fe17:8e4f/64  fe:a6:c9:17:8e:4f
vaf.bor.L9tqMch  -                fe80::fc90:92ff:fe48:bf48/64  fe:90:92:48:bf:48
vaf.dan.GhojJo8  -                fe80::fc0c:71ff:feaa:8b81/64  fe:0c:71:aa:8b:81
vaf.tru.ZuH5xfb  -                fe80::fc2e:21ff:fe91:2ce5/64  fe:2e:21:91:2c:e5
vaf.huo.6ii1Tyy  -                fe80::fcbe:fbff:fe59:44f5/64  fe:be:fb:59:44:f5
vaf.nwt.CFoTS9J  -                fe80::fc5d:3fff:feac:917f/64  fe:5d:3f:ac:91:7f
vethe8qi4n       -                fe80::fca2:10ff:feec:5e2b/64  fe:a2:10:ec:5e:2b
vaf.cra.6gHyk8E  -                fe80::fc23:4bff:fe2c:e9b/64   fe:23:4b:2c:0e:9b

score 0 · Answer 18 · 2017-07-19T06:33:01.923

This is the shortest way I could find:

ip -f inet addr show $1 | grep -Po 'inet \K[\d.]+'

Replace $1 with your network interface.

ip -f inet tells ip to only return values for the inet (ipv4) family.

grep -Po tells grep to interperate the next value as a perl-regex, and only print the matching values.

The regex \K[\d.]+ says "throw away everything up to this point (\K), and match as many numeric values followed by a dot in a row as possible". This will therefore only match the IP address and ignore everything after it, including the shortform \XX subnet mask.

score 0 · Answer 19 · edited Nov 12 '17 at 15:46

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In my script I'm using something like that:

re="inet[[:space:]]+([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)"
if [[ $(ip addr show eth0) =~ $re ]]; then
    echo ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
else
    echo "Cannot determin IP" 1>&2
fi

It doesn't spawn any process.

edited Nov 12 '17 at 15:46

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answered Oct 29 '17 at 18:43

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How to display IP address of eth0 interface using a shell script?

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