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

After trying some solutions i find this most handy, add this to your alias:

alias iconfig='ifconfig | awk '\''{if ( $1 >= "en" && $2 >= "flags" && $3 == "mtu") {print $1}; if ( $1 == "inet" || $1 == "status:"){print $0};}'\''|egrep "en|lo|inet"'

the output looks like this:

shady@Shadys-MacBook-Pro:xxxx/xxx ‹dev*›$ iconfig lo0: inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 en0: inet 10.16.27.115 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.16.27.255 en1: en2: en5: inet 192.168.2.196 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255