nmcli, how to get "connection.id" or "general.name" of device

I am writing a script on 16.04; to show connection identification, especially for VPN connections, by listing active connections with

ip -o link sh up | awk 'BEGIN{FS=": "} $2!="lo" {print $2}'

and getting:

enp0s25
ppp0

Now I want to get/return the Connection NAME, the same as from:

#: nmcli con sh --active
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE
VPN-pptp-01 22222222-2222-f48f-99d0-817335722def vpn enp0s25
enp0s25 11111111-1111-43c9-9577-112ae6f11abc 802-3-ethernet enp0s25

using the previously return active device ID, especially for ppp0 (from above)

How can this be done using nmcli or perhaps D-Bus?

1 Answer

You can use the following command:

nmcli -t -f NAME c show --active

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