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

There are a lot of answers here already. Some of these are pretty distro specific. For those who found this post looking for a way to find the gateway, but not needing to use it in code/batch utilization (as I did)... try:

traceroute www.google.com

the first hop is your default gateway.

Answer 2

/sbin/route |egrep "^default" |cut -d' ' -f2-12 #and 'cut' to taste...

Answer 3

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}