Parse ifconfig to get only my IP address using Bash

Question

I want to edit the bashrc file to have a simple function called \"myip\" to run. As you might guess, the function myip prints only my internal IP address of my machine.

Answer 1

Both the following work here (CentOS 5).

ip addr show eth0 | awk '$1 == "inet" {gsub(/\/.*$/, "", $2); print $2}'

ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet addr/ {gsub("addr:", "", $2); print $2}'

For OS X (v10.11 (El Capitan) at least):

ifconfig en0 | awk '$1 == "inet" {print $2}'