Which terminal command to get just IP address and nothing else?

Question

I\'m trying to use just the IP address (inet) as a parameter in a script I wrote.

Is there an easy way in a unix terminal to get just the IP address, rather than loo

Answer 1

On Redhat 64bit, this solved problem for me.

ifconfig $1|sed -n 2p|awk '{ print $2 }'|awk -F : '{ print $2 }'