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For showing IP Address before the login prompt on Ubuntu env. Copy the following script to /etc/network/if-up.d/ and /etc/network/if-post-down.d/ folders. And don’t forget to mark them as executables.
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show-ip-address.sh
# This shell script displays hostname and IP Address of the Ubuntu machine before the login prompt.
# Add this file to '/etc/network/if-up.d/' and '/etc/network/if-post-down.d/' folders and mark them as executables.
# Display Ubuntu default information [the current version of Ubuntu].
cat /etc/issue.net > /etc/issue
# Display the hostname.
hostname >> /etc/issue
# Display the IP Address of eth0.
ip address show eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1 >> /etc/issue
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