Find out your IP Address on linux

To find out your IP address on linux machine, in the terminal type ip add show, and you will get a result giving all the network addresses. From the list search for ens33.

jill@VM-00:~$ ip add show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:7e:af:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp2s1
    inet 192.168.31.129/24 brd 192.168.31.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute ens33
       valid_lft 1207sec preferred_lft 1207sec
    inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe7e:af18/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

In order to search for specific ethernet address, add “| grep + ethernet name”.

jill@VM-00:~$ ip add show | grep ens33
2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    inet 192.168.31.129/24 brd 192.168.31.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute ens33

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