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Tech Tip: Getting Your MAC and IP Address In a Script

Dec 31, 2009  By Sandeep Swaminathan
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Ever wanted to get the MAC or IP address of your computer in a Linux shell script? The following two commands should work on most flavours of Linux/Unix.

To get your IP address: 

/sbin/ifconfig \
   | grep '\<inet\>' \
   | sed -n '1p' \
   | tr -s ' ' \
   | cut -d ' ' -f3 \
   | cut -d ':' -f2

To get your MAC address (Hardware address): 

/sbin/ifconfig \
   | grep 'eth0' \
   | tr -s ' ' \
   | cut -d ' ' -f5

Note that this retrieves the address of the eth0 interface by default.

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How about this: hostname -i

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 23:32.

How about this:

hostname -i

this one-liner shows all IP addresses for all interfaces

freephile's picture
Submitted by freephile on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 07:33.

/sbin/ifconfig | grep 'inet addr:'| grep -v '127.0.0.1' | cut -d: -f2 | sort | awk '{print "# "$1}'

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www.rundlett.com

bash script for all unixes at

freephile's picture
Submitted by freephile on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 07:37.

http://bash.cyberciti.biz/misc-shell/read-local-ip-address/

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www.rundlett.com

get your IP

kaloyan's picture
Submitted by kaloyan (not verified) on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 05:10.

ifconfig eth0
| sed -n '/inet addr:/p'
| cut -d: -f2
| cut -d" " -f1

all in one

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 15:00.

ifconfig ath0 | perl -ne 'm/.*HWaddr (\S+).*/ && print "$1 ";m/.*inet addr:(\S+)/ && print "$1\n"'

Perl could be used for extracting both IPv4 and IPv6:

Roland Müller's picture
Submitted by Roland Müller (not verified) on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 02:39. 
# ifconfig | perl -ne '(s|^\s+inet6\s+addr:\s*([0-9a-f:/]+)\s+.*|${1}| or s|^\s+inet\s+addr:\s*([0-9.]+)\s+.*|${1}|) and print;'
******************************
******************************
127.0.0.1
::1/128

showing mac address

Joe Eykholt's picture
Submitted by Joe Eykholt (not verified) on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 04:46.

To show MAC:

cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address

egrep

Kwirkie's picture
Submitted by Kwirkie (not verified) on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 15:59.

How about...

IP:
ifconfig eth1 | egrep -o '([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}' | sed -n '1p'

MAC:
ifconfig eth1 | egrep -o '([[:xdigit:]]{2}[:]){5}[[:xdigit:]]{2}'

This provides validation and also the regexp can be used elsewhere to find IPs and MACs

IP: ip addr show dev eth0 |

zsteva's picture
Submitted by zsteva on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 15:44.

IP:
ip addr show dev eth0 | sed -e's/^.*inet \([^ ]*\)\/.*$/\1/;t;d'

MAC:
ip addr show dev eth0 | sed -e's/^.*link[^ ]* \([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/;t;d'

or with /sbin/ifconfig

IP:
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | sed -e's/^.*inet addr:\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/;t;d'

MAC:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | sed -e's/^.*HWaddr \([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/;t;d'