Why is it so hard to get your own local IP address

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There are so many questions asking basically: how do I get my local IP address? None of answers are portable, they all seem like a hack. This seems like such a common need, but there are no good solutions. Why? Why can't we have a nice Unix tool that simply does this? Is this actually a hard problem?










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    There are so many questions asking basically: how do I get my local IP address? None of answers are portable, they all seem like a hack. This seems like such a common need, but there are no good solutions. Why? Why can't we have a nice Unix tool that simply does this? Is this actually a hard problem?










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      There are so many questions asking basically: how do I get my local IP address? None of answers are portable, they all seem like a hack. This seems like such a common need, but there are no good solutions. Why? Why can't we have a nice Unix tool that simply does this? Is this actually a hard problem?










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      There are so many questions asking basically: how do I get my local IP address? None of answers are portable, they all seem like a hack. This seems like such a common need, but there are no good solutions. Why? Why can't we have a nice Unix tool that simply does this? Is this actually a hard problem?







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