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How to get the IP address of a Unix machine?

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Mar 15, 2026178052 views
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I need to know the IP address of a UNIX machine. I can login to it with ssh but don't know the IP address. Can anyone please tell me a command to get the IP address of the Unix machine I logged in to?

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You can use ifconfig to get the IP address of any of the interfaces on the system (note that there may well be more than one interface and more than one IP address). Start with:

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