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berkes on 02/04/10


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Commandline oneliner to get your public IP adress

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URL: http://www.go2linux.org/what-is-my-public-ip-address-with-linux

Use wget and sed to get your public IP adress (instead of firing up firefox and visting whatismyip.com). Usefull in scripts where you need your public IP adres.

There are probably better ways, maybe even a GNUtool that I missed?

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  1. wget --quit -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^:]*: //' -e 's/<.*$//'

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Posted By: zzeroo on May 4, 2011

There is a spelling error. The wget parameter is --quiet not --quit wget --quiet -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^:]*: //' -e 's/

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