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Currently, when using the ifconfig command, the following IP addresses are shown: own IP, broadcast and mask.

Is there a way to show the related gateway IP address as well (on the same screen with all the others, not by using 'route' command)?

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    The addresses shows are parameters of the IP configuration of the interface. The gateway is a system routing parameter, not an interface parameter. It wouldn't make sense to show it in the interface configuration.
    – David Schwartz
    Oct 27, 2011 at 10:33

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You can with the ip command, and given that ifconfig is in the process of being deprecated by most distributions it's now the preferred tool. An example:

$ ip route show
212.13.197.0/28 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 212.13.197.13
default via 212.13.197.1 dev eth0
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    also we can use ip r which shows the same.
    – Rahul Patil
    Jul 31, 2013 at 11:50
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    So the gateway is '212.13.197.1' in this example?
    – xxjjnn
    Aug 21, 2015 at 9:57
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    route -n is so much cleaner of an output..
    – Angry 84
    Jan 11, 2018 at 22:10
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    @SenorContento good thing the question was about linux and not a mac.
    – Angry 84
    Aug 3, 2018 at 1:10
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    For scripting: ip route show | sed 's/\(\S\+\s\+\)\?default via \(\S\+\).*/\2/p; d'
    – user541686
    Jun 2, 2019 at 3:08
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Run:

$ route

The output is:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         10.0.2.2        0.0.0.0         UG    1024   0        0 eth0
10.0.2.0        *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
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No, there isn't. According to the man page you can't modify the output of ifconfig (except showing disabled interfaces, too).

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