How do i get the default gateway in LINUX given the destination?

Question

I\'m trying to get the default gateway, using the destination 0.0.0.0

I used this command: netstat -rn | grep 0.0.0.0

And it return

Answer 1

This is how I do it:

#!/bin/sh
GATEWAY_DEFAULT=$(ip route list | sed -n -e "s/^default.*[[:space:]]\([[:digit:]]\+\.[[:digit:]]\+\.[[:digit:]]\+\.[[:digit:]]\+\).*/\1/p")
echo ${GATEWAY_DEFAULT}