I would like to use a short shell script to get my default gateway address. so that it would do
$> whatismygateway.sh
192.168.100.10
I have tried ifconfig eth0, but it just does not contain any information about the gateway.
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route | grep defaultshould give you what you’re looking for, although if you have multiple interfaces you may need to filter the results further.