detecting my IP

jonaskoelker · 01-15-2005, 07:50 PM

STATUS: Solved
The solution is in post #5. Thanks to ilikejam for suggesting the other solution (which requires root, though).

howdy.

upon running dhclient, I get assigned an IP adress as usual. What I want to know is if there's an easy way (read: command-line tool) of finding out what that IP adress was?

for example, I'd like to say
$ echo "here I am: " `the_tool_in_question` | mail spam@bacon.egg

thanks,

Jonas Kölker

ilikejam · 01-15-2005, 08:12 PM

It's a bit convoluted, but try this (as root)

Code:

ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -d: -f 2 | awk '{ print $1 }'

Dave

jonaskoelker · 01-16-2005, 04:03 AM

thanks. though I prefer to use sed

anyways, I found a way to do it non-root (now I feel silly for asking)

anyways, thanks for taking your time

Jonas Kölker

ilikejam · 01-16-2005, 05:56 AM

How did you do it non-root?

jonaskoelker · 01-16-2005, 06:23 AM

$ ip addr show eth0 # or
$ ip addr show scope global # or
$ ip --help
it's a part of the debian package 'iproute'.

Hope this helps,

Jonas

ilikejam · 01-16-2005, 06:45 AM

Ah. I don't have 'ip' installed.

Cool.

Dave