Show me IP: Linux, FeeBSD, SunOS

• Shell script: read and show ip address – suitable with Linux, FreeBSD and SunOS

#!/bin/sh
# Shell script to read ip address
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# Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
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# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
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# Get OS name
OS=`uname`
IO="" # store IP
case $OS in
Linux) IP=`ifconfig | grep 'inet addr:'| grep -v '127.0.0.1' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'`;;
FreeBSD|OpenBSD) IP=`ifconfig | grep -E 'inet.[0-9]' | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | awk '{ print $2}'` ;;
SunOS) IP=`ifconfig -a | grep inet | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | awk '{ print $2} '` ;;
*) IP="Unknown";;
esac
echo "$IP"