Sometimes when writing your bash scripts, you may need some information about the network, such as the IP addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6, broadcast addresses, netmasks and such. There are two very basic ways of getting the necessary information in Linux systems, you should either choose the ip addr show method, and parse what’s coming out of it, or parse the output of ifconfig. Let’s deal with them both.
The “ip addr show” method
We will parse this output:
eaydin@eaydin:~$ ip addr show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:22:15:f6:55:e6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.16.30/24 brd 192.168.16.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::222:15ff:fef6:55e6/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
IP ADDRESS :
ip addr show |grep -w inet |grep -v 127.0.0.1|awk '{ print $2}'| cut -d "/" -f 1
Output : 192.168.16.30
PREFIX (Netmask in CIDR Notation) :
ip addr show |grep -w inet |grep -v 127.0.0.1|awk '{ print $2}'| cut -d "/" -f 2
Output : 24
Broadcast IP :
ip addr show |grep -w inet |grep -v 127.0.0.1|awk '{ print $4}'
Output : 192.168.16.255
Device name :
ip addr show | awk 'FNR==7 {print $2}' | tr -d :
Output : eth0
IPv6 ADDRESS :
ip addr show |grep -w inet6 |grep -v ::1|awk '{ print $2}'| cut -d "/" -f 1
Output : fe80::222:15ff:fef6:55e6
IPv6 PREFIX (Netmask in CIDR Notation) :
ip addr show |grep -w inet6 |grep -v ::1|awk 'FNR==1 { print $2}'| cut -d "/" -f 2
Output : 64
Ethernet Card MAC Address :
ip addr show | grep -w ether | awk '{ print $2 }'
Output : 00:22:15:f6:55:e6
The “ifconfig” method
This time we’ll parse this output:
eaydin@eaydin:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:15:f6:55:e6
inet addr:192.168.16.30 Bcast:192.168.16.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:15ff:fef6:55e6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:626934 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:363506 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:284072710 (284.0 MB) TX bytes:56413838 (56.4 MB)
Interrupt:45
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:43339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4834972 (4.8 MB) TX bytes:4834972 (4.8 MB)
IP ADDRESS :
ifconfig | grep -w inet |grep -v 127.0.0.1| awk '{print $2}' | cut -d ":" -f 2
Output : 192.168.16.30
Broadcast IP :
ifconfig | grep -w inet |grep -v 127.0.0.1| awk '{print $6}' | cut -d ":" -f 2
Output : 192.168.16.255
Netmask :
ifconfig | grep -w inet |grep -v 127.0.0.1| awk '{print $4}' | cut -d ":" -f 2
Output : 255.255.255.0
Device name :
ifconfig | awk 'FNR==1 { print $1 }' | tr --d :
Output : eth0
IPv6 ADDRESS :
ifconfig | grep -w inet6 | grep -v ::1| awk '{ print $2 }'
Output : fe80::222:15ff:fef6:55e6
IPv6 PREFIX (Netmask in CIDR Notation) :
ifconfig | grep -w inet6 | awk 'FNR == 2 { print $4 }'
Output : 64
Ethernet Card MAC Address :
ifconfig | grep -w ether | awk '{ print $2 }'
Output : 00:22:15:f6:55:e6