Commands to show the global Internet IP address and the local IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in the CLI and in the terminal

Display the global IP with which I surf in the Internet, this does simply in the command line for Windows, Linux and macOS

Show my IP address with which I surf in the internet. Run the following command in the Linux terminal to output the public IP address.

$ curl echo.ipline.ch

To show the local private IP address with the following command:

$ /sbin/ifconfig ens192 | grep 'inet' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $2}'

Note. output from Debian 11 in System Locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

For Linux operating systems installed in German:

$ /sbin/ifconfig ens192 | grep 'inet Adresse' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'

Note: ipconfig is deprecated, for current distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu or Rocky and Fedora, the ip command is used.

This command show IPv4 addresses using -4:

$ ip -4 addr

The clear and concise output as follows:

$ ip -4 addr | grep -oP '(?<=inet\s)\d+(\.\d+){3}'

Only IPv6 addresses should be output:

$ ip -6 addr | grep -oP '(?<=inet6\s)[\da-f:]+'

The “hostname” command will also show the IP address:

$ hostname -i

Show IP addresses on macOS

macOS returns the IP address from the terminal with the following command

$ /sbin/ifconfig en0 | awk '/inet /{print $2}'

The hostname command is also available on macOS.

$ hostname -I

Show IP addresses on Windows

Windows use ipconfig to show IP address

Show the local network configuration in Windows command prompt.

C:\> ipconfig /all

If only the IPv4 addresses should be output.

C:\> ipconfig | findstr /i "ipv4"

Individual values can be queried using Windows management interface commands.

C:\> wmic NICCONFIG GET IPAddress

This query e.g. show the IP address of each interface.

C:\> netsh interface ipv4 show address

Get IP addresses in the PowerShell with Get-NetIPAddress

PS C:\> Get-NetIPAddress | ft

With the AddressFamily option, only IPV4 addresses will be displayed.

PS C:\> Get-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily IPv4 | ft

By typing Get-NetIPAddress -? all parameters to the cmdlet are output.

Example: show IP address in the PowerShell

Show public IP address and local private IP address in the PowerShell.

$GlobalIP = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://echo.ipline.ch
$PrivatIP = $(Get-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex 11 -AddressFamily IPv4).IPAddress
Write-Host "My public IPv4 address is:" $GlobalIP
Write-Host "My privat IPv4 address is:" $PrivatIP