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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:47:50 JST mhoye

   Lazyweb, a question: what is the simplest command that will give me a Linux machine’s IP address, and only that?

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:47:50 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @mhoye oh dear… :blobcatpopcornnom:

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:54:20 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @mhoye

     `ip -br a` is probably close enough to what you want.

     if you know the interface name you can zero-in on it with:

     `ip -br a s eth0`

     Thing is, an interface can have multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, obviously. In other words, "Linux machine's IP address" is just not clear enough a query to get a clear answer. You kind of need to narrow it down *somehow*, and that will be very dependent on the specific context of what you're trying to do…

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     Xenotar (xenotar@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:54:32 JST Xenotar

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     @mhoye
     old school: ifconfig -a
     new school: ip address

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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 12:51:30 JST Darcy Casselman

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     @mhoye `hostname -I`

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     Jon Dubovsky (jond@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 12:51:30 JST Jon Dubovsky

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     • Darcy Casselman

     @flyingsquirrel @mhoye second'ing this: hostname -I (capital I) will give you the non-loopback addr (or addrs, if the machine has multiple)

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 12:51:30 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Darcy Casselman
     • Jon Dubovsky

     @jond ha! I learned something new today!

     @flyingsquirrel @mhoye