Getting Local IP and Global IP address in Mac

Finding Global/External IP

You can get your external IP from terminal as follows

or

Finding Local IP

3 methods for finding Local IP are as below :-

Most easy way via GUI is to go to System preferences -> Networks .Here you will see your local IP as shown below

2. Using ipconfig

If we want to get more details, it is possible via Terminal . Unlike Windows , If you type ipconfig in Terminal , you will end up with something like this

We have to specify the following arguments to get your ip

3. Using ifconfig

Alternatively you can also retrieve IP using following command(it is ifconfig not ipconfig)

You will see following output, in which you can see in Bold

we can further filter results by issuing one more grep having something like 192.168 for local IP

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