Putting IP Address into bash variable. Is there a better way

Question

I\'m trying to find a short and robust way to put my IP address into a bash variable and was curious if there was an easier way to do this. This is how I am currently doing

Answer 1

You can get just awk to do all the parsing of ifconfig:

ip=$(ifconfig | gawk '
    /^[a-z]/ {interface = $1}
    interface == "eth0" && match($0, /^.*inet addr:([.0-9]+)/, a) {
        print a[1]
        exit
    }
')