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Get IP Address In A Script

Recently needed a good way to fetch the IP address of each interface within a script. Tried things like:

and

But this is fairly ugly. So I tried:

This gives a list of IP addresses but they are un-ordered so I can’t guarantee which address goes with which interface.  Here’s one using “ip addr”:

Still very messy.  Finally, found the “ifdata” command which is part of the “moreutils” package. First make sure “moreutils” is installed with:

Now you can query for a wide range of different information:

So here are some examples:

Overall this is much cleaner and more reliable then the earlier approaches.