How do I get the IP address into a batch-file variable

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I have an odd question  not sure if its possible   I d like to write a script  and for example I m going to use ipconfig as my command   Now when you normally run this command theres a ton of output   What I d like to have is a script that would show only the IP address  for example   echo Network Connection Test ipconfig  lt ---This would run in the background echo Your IP Address is   INSERT IP ADDRESS HERE    The output would be  Network Connection Test  Your IP Address is  192 168 1 1   Is this even possible

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if you just want the ip address try this    Variable to store ip address ipaddr   hostname -I   echo   ipaddr

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Extracting the address all by itself is a bit difficult  but you can get the entire IP Address line easily   To show all IP addresses on any English-language Windows OS   ipconfig   findstr  R  C  IP   Address    To show only IPv4 or IPv6 addresses on Windows 7    ipconfig   findstr  R  C  IPv4 Address   ipconfig   findstr  R  C  IPv6 Address    Here s some sample output from an XP machine with 3 network adapters           IP Address                          192 168 1 10         IP Address                          10 6 102 205         IP Address                          192 168 56 1

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This work even if you have a virtual network adapters or VPN connections   FOR  F  tokens 4 delims      i in   route print    find   0 0 0 0    do set localIp   i echo Your IP Address is   localIp

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The following was all done in cygwin on a Windows XP box   This will get your IP address   Note that there are backquotes around the hostname command  not single quotes   ping -n 1  hostname    grep  Reply from     cut -f 3 -d       cut -f 1 -d       This will get your subnet   ping -n 1  hostname    grep  Reply from     cut -f 3 -d       cut -f  1 2 3  -d       The following will list all hosts on your local network  put it into a script called  netmap    I had taken the subnet line above and put it into an executable called  getsubnet   which I then called from the following script   MINADDR 0 MAXADDR 255 SUBNET  getsubnet   hostcnt 0  echo Pinging all addresses in   SUBNET    MINADDR -  MAXADDR   for i in  seq  MINADDR  MAXADDR   do addr   SUBNET   i ping -n 1 -w 0  addr  gt   dev null  if      -ne 1       then     echo  addr UP     hostcnt    hostcnt 1       fi  done  echo Found  hostcnt hosts on subnet   SUBNET    MINADDR -  MAXADDR

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Using IPCONFIG is good  unless you want the flexibility of getting the IP of a remote host in addition to the local host  To get it from something like www google com using PING try   for  f  tokens 2 delims       f in   ping -4 -n 1 www google com   find  i  pinging    do echo IP   f   The result for that example is   IP 173 194 73 106   To get the first IP of your local host  replace  www google com  with   computername   without the quotes  Note the  -4  in front will always get the IPv4 address instead of a possible IPv6 address  Omit as needed  Note also that this technique cannot get more than one IP address  If that is your goal  you ll need to use NSLOOKUP with some extra code   Mind you  if you use NSLOOKUP instead of PING  and the host has more than one IP address  then your variable will have a comma at the end  since each address will be separated by a comma

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In linux environment   ip    ifconfig eth0   grep  inet addr     awk   print  2     cut -d     -f 2     or  ip    ifconfig eth0   grep  inet addr     awk   print  2     cut -d     -f 2     echo  ip   example in FreeBSD   ifconfig re0   grep -v  inet6    grep -i  inet    awk   print  2     If you have more than one IP address configured  you will have more than one IP address in stdout

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One line command in Windows to get the IP Address   for  F  tokens 14    i in    ipconfig   findstr IPv4    do SET LOCAL IP   i   After this command echo  LOCAL IP  will print the ip address  Or you can use  LOCAL IP  as reference variable in your batch script

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In Windows 7   for  f  tokens 1-2 delims      a in   ipconfig  find  IPv4    do set ip   b set ip  ip  1  echo  ip  pause

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tldr  I wasn t able use any of the above answers in my use case so I used the following command to get the ip address of my Ethernet network adapter and echo it as mentioned in the above question  In a command line  for  f  quot tokens 3 delims    quot   i  in   netsh interface ip show config name   quot Ethernet quot     findstr  quot IP Address quot    do echo Your IP Address is   i  Or in a batch file  for  f  quot tokens 3 delims    quot    i  in   netsh interface ip show config name   quot Wi-Fi quot     findstr  quot IP Address quot     findstr  0-9    do set IP   i  For those who are curious to know what all that means  read on Most commands using ipconfig for example just print out all your IP addresses and I needed a specific one which in my case was for my Ethernet network adapter  You can see your list of network adapters by using the netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces command  Most people need Wi-Fi or Ethernet  You ll see a table like so in the output to the command prompt  Idx     Met         MTU          State                Name ---  ----------  ----------  ------------  ---------------------------   1          75  4294967295  connected     Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1  15          25        1500  connected     Ethernet  17        5000        1500  connected     vEthernet  Default Switch   32          15        1500  connected     vEthernet  DockerNAT   In the name column you should find the network adapter you want  i e  Ethernet  Wi-Fi etc    As mentioned  I was interested in Ethernet in my case  To get the IP for that adapter we can use the netsh command  netsh interface ip show config name  quot Ethernet quot  This gives us this output  Configuration for interface  quot Ethernet quot      DHCP enabled                          Yes     IP Address                            169 252 27 59     Subnet Prefix                         169 252 0 0 16  mask 255 255 0 0      InterfaceMetric                       25     DNS servers configured through DHCP   None     Register with which suffix            Primary only     WINS servers configured through DHCP  None   I faked the actual IP number above for security reasons   I can further specify which line I want using the findstr command in the ms-dos command prompt  Here I want the line containing the string IP Address  netsh interface ip show config name  quot Ethernet quot    findstr  quot IP Address quot   This gives the following output   IP Address                            169 252 27 59  I can then use the for command that allows me to parse files  or multiline strings in this case  and split out the strings  contents based on a delimiter and the item number that I m interested in  Note that I am looking for the third item  tokens 3  and that I am using the space character and   as my delimiters  delims      for  f  quot tokens 3 delims    quot   i  in   netsh interface ip show config name   quot Ethernet quot     findstr  quot IP Address quot    do echo Your IP Address is   i  Each value or token in the loop is printed off as the variable  i but I m only interested in the third  quot token quot  or item  hence tokens 3   Note that I had to escape the   and   using a   At the end of the for command you can specify a command to run with the content that is returned  In this case I am using echo to print it out with some other text but you could also assign the value to an environment variable with do set IP  i for example or what ever you like  Pretty neat  huh  If you have any ideas for improving please leave a comment  I d love to hear it    Or you could just edit

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try something like this  echo  yours ip addresses are   ifconfig   grep  inet addr    cut -d    -f2   cut -d    -f1   linux like systems

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For my system  I had numerous IPv4 Addresses  only one of which was correct  A simple way to sort out and check it is as follows   for  f  tokens 1 2  delims      A in   ipconfig    find  IPv4 Address    do       set  tempip    B      set  tempip  tempip          ping  tempip  -n 1 -w 50     if  errorlevel   0           set localip  tempip          goto foundlocal          foundlocal

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If you want PowerShell or WSL2 bash  I m just building off of this answer on superuser  but I found the following options much clearer way to get my LAN IP address   Find the name of the interface you want to know about For me  it was Configuration for interface  quot Wi-Fi quot   so for me the name is Wi-Fi   Replace  quot Wi-Fi quot  in the command below with your interface name   PowerShell   myip   netsh interface ip show address  quot Wi-Fi quot        where      -match  quot IP Address quot               -replace  quot    IP Address  W  quot    quot  quot    echo  myip  Output  192 168 1 10  Or  my edge case  executing command in WSL2  netsh exe interface ip show address  quot Wi-Fi quot         grep  IP Address         sed -r  s    IP Address  W        e g  export REACT NATIVE PACKAGER HOSTNAME   netsh exe interface ip show address  quot Wi-Fi quot         grep  IP Address         sed -r  s    IP Address  W

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The following code works on any locale of any platform since Windows XP and it looks for the network IP from a  more or less  random of your network cards  It will never take longer than a few milliseconds   for  f  delims    tokens 2    a in   ping -4 -n 1  ComputerName     findstr     do set NetworkIP   a echo Network IP   NetworkIP    The following one looks for your public IP instead and works on Windows 7 and newer machines   for  f   a in   powershell Invoke-RestMethod api ipify org   do set PublicIP   a echo Public IP   PublicIP      You can find detailed explanations of these commands on my blog

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Below script will store the ip address to the variable ip address   echo off  call  get ip address echo  ip address   goto  eof  REM REM get the ip address REM  get ip address FOR  f  tokens 1 delims      d IN   ping  computername  -4 -n 1    find  i  reply    do  FOR  F  tokens 3 delims      g IN     d   DO set ip address   g   goto  eof   Ideas from this blog post

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I know this is an older post but I ran across this while trying to solve the same problem in vbscript  I haven t tested this with mulitple network adapters but hope that it s helpful nonetheless   for  f  delims   tokens 2    a in   ipconfig    findstr  R  C  IPv4 Address    do  set tempip   a    set tempip  tempip       echo  tempip    This assumes Win7  For XP  replace IPv4 Address with IP Address

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echo off  FOR  F  tokens 4 delims      i in   route print    find   0 0 0 0    do set localIp   i  echo Your IP Address is   localIp

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Assuming a windows OS as you mention i p config  If you re willing to install some Unixy utilities like a windows-port of grep and cut you can do that   However  in cases like your example with ipconfig it will be a mess in machines with multiple NICs or e g VMWare   Powershell might be the tool you want  look here for a example

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This will print the IP addresses in the output of ipconfig    echo off set ip address string  IPv4 Address  rem Uncomment the following line when using older versions of Windows without IPv6 support  by removing  rem   rem set ip address string  IP Address  echo Network Connection Test for  f  usebackq tokens 2 delims      f in   ipconfig    findstr  c  ip address string    do echo Your IP Address is    f   To only print the first IP address  just add goto  eof  or another label to jump to instead of  eof  after the echo  or in a more readable form   set ip address string  IPv4 Address  rem Uncomment the following line when using older versions of Windows without IPv6 support  by removing  rem   rem set ip address string  IP Address  for  f  usebackq tokens 2 delims      f in   ipconfig    findstr  c  ip address string    do       echo Your IP Address is    f     goto  eof     A more configurable way would be to actually parse the output of ipconfig  all a little bit  that way you can even specify the adapter whose IP address you want    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion   just a sample adapter here  set  adapter Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network  set adapterfound false echo Network Connection Test for  f  usebackq tokens 1-2 delims      f in   ipconfig  all   do       set  item   f      if  i   item      adapter             set adapterfound true       else if not   item      item IP Address    if   adapterfound     true            echo Your IP Address is    g         set adapterfound false

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This is a modification of  mousio s answer  My network connection is not persistent hence the IP address of the next adapter gets displayed if the string  IPv4 Address  is missing from ipconfig  The result of ipconfig has 2 blank spaces between adapters  After an adapter is found and 2 blank lines occurs before the  IPv4 Address  text  it assumes it is missing  Tested on Windows 7 64-bit only   Processing blank lines from  dbenham s answer in  DOS batch FOR loop with FIND exe is stripping out blank lines    echo off  rem --- complete adapter name to find without the ending     --- set adapter Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection  rem --- token under an adapter to extract IP address from --- set IPAddrToken IPv4 Address  setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set adapterfound false set emptylines 0 set ipaddress   for  f  usebackq tokens 1-3 delims      e in   ipconfig    findstr  n       do        set  item   f       if  i   item      adapter             set adapterfound true         set emptylines 0       else if not   item       if not   item      item  IPAddrToken     if   adapterfound     true             rem   item  IPAddrToken     -- gt  item with  IPv4 Address  removed         set ipaddress   g         goto  result           if    f-  g- adapterfound - emptylines     --true-1             rem 2nd blank line after adapter found         goto  result           if    f-  g- adapterfound - emptylines     --true-0             rem 1st blank line after adapter found         set emptylines 1          endlocal   result     echo  adapter      echo      if not   ipaddress                 echo     IPAddrToken    ipaddress        else           if   adapterfound     true                echo     IPAddrToken  Not Found           else               echo    Adapter Not Found                     echo   pause

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