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

There is another easy way to get the IP address apart from parsing ifconfig.

hostname -I -I, --all-ip-addresses all addresses for the host -i, --ip-address addresses for the hostname

Ref: http://linux.die.net/man/1/hostname

Example:

[ec2-user@terraform ~]$ hostname -I
10.10.10.10