[ale] Get host's IP address as an unprivileged user?

[Michael Trausch]

$ ip ls

You can grep for the if you're interested in. ip, from the iproute2 package,
is the preferred mechanism for working with the networking stack in Linux;
it is far more capable than ifconfig is.

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On Jun 4, 2011 1:51 AM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to get the IP address of the local machine on which a script is
> being executed. The script is going to be run by an unprivileged user
> (so /sbin is not in the PATH). Does anyone know of a better way than
> this:
>
> IP=$(host $(hostname) | awk '{print $4}')
>
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