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

No need to do unportable ifconfig parsing in Bash. It's a trivial one-liner in Python:

python -c 'import socket; print(socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()))'