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Old 08-25-2008
IP address of Unix machine

Can any one please tell me how to find the IP address of the Unix machine we are in?
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Old 08-25-2008
nslookup command
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Old 08-25-2008
You can view the information about the configured network interfaces with this command:
Code:
ifconfig

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Old 08-25-2008
could be
Code:
ifconfig -a

or you may check the man pages "man ifconfig" for more info.
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Old 08-26-2008
thoothukudiking,

Check out the below link, plenty of information available here:

Quick HOWTO : Ch03 : Linux Networking - Linux Home Networking
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Old 08-26-2008
IP address on *nix

Just copy and paste that line to your command line. It strips the IP address for a clean view

$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'

Good luck
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Old 08-26-2008
ifconfig -a|grep -i BROADCAST
 
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