Find your IP Address via the Mac OS X Terminal
Find your IP Address via the Mac OS X Terminal This is how to find the IP address of your Mac through the Terminal, this is often the quickest way for those that are more technically inclined. Launch the Terminal located in /Applications/Utilities/ Type the following command: ifconfig |grep inet You will see something that looks like this: inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 fe80::fa1e:dfff:feea:d544%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 Your IP address is usually next to the last entry of ‘inet’ and in this case is 192.168.0.100, an IP address is always in the format of x.x.x.x but it will never be 127.0.0.1 because that is your machines loopback address. Because you can always ignore 127.0.0.1, this guarantees that your IP address will be the other IP between ‘inet’ and ‘netmask’ The other command line option is to use: ipconfig getifaddr en1 ...