Comments on: How to find your public IP address with the Linux command line http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/04/07/how-to-find-your-public-ip-address-with-the-linux-command-line/ Common questions, simple answers Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:54:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sionide21 http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/04/07/how-to-find-your-public-ip-address-with-the-linux-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10631 Sionide21 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:23:18 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2359#comment-10631 You can use http://www.whatismyip.org/ To get just the ip in plaintext form. You can use
http://www.whatismyip.org/
To get just the ip in plaintext form.

]]> By: Sukrit D http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/04/07/how-to-find-your-public-ip-address-with-the-linux-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10634 Sukrit D Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:22:58 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2359#comment-10634 Sorry for the delayed reply. You can also use the following command to get your public IP: <code>wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'</code> Sorry for the delayed reply. You can also use the following command to get your public IP:

wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'

]]> By: Tom http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/04/07/how-to-find-your-public-ip-address-with-the-linux-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10633 Tom Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:56:18 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2359#comment-10633 Using ifconfig works just as well, you'll still need to grep for the proper lines, and then possibly use sed to extract the actual IP address as this script does, and it doesn't rely on a specific site actually being up... Using ifconfig works just as well, you’ll still need to grep for the proper lines, and then possibly use sed to extract the actual IP address as this script does, and it doesn’t rely on a specific site actually being up…

]]> By: spuffler http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/04/07/how-to-find-your-public-ip-address-with-the-linux-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10632 spuffler Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:36:53 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2359#comment-10632 ... evidently, the author doesn't read our replies, otherwise, I'd have had a successful execution of the script file, because I would have copied corrected text. ... … evidently, the author doesn’t read our replies, otherwise, I’d have had a successful execution of the script file, because I would have copied corrected text. …

]]> By: Mike http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/04/07/how-to-find-your-public-ip-address-with-the-linux-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10630 Mike Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:09:17 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2359#comment-10630 When I copy-pasted the script into my own file, I saw that your quote marks don't match up. ... ‘[0-9.]+' I changed the first quote before the [ character to ', making the final product read: #!/bin/bash curl -s myip.dk | grep '"Box"' | egrep -o '[0-9.]+' By the way, I apologize for the slight messiness of this, but it's very difficult to quote a quote mark. ;) When I copy-pasted the script into my own file, I saw that your quote marks don’t match up.

… ‘[0-9.]+’

I changed the first quote before the [ character to ', making the final product read:

#!/bin/bash
curl -s myip.dk | grep '"Box"' | egrep -o '[0-9.]+’

By the way, I apologize for the slight messiness of this, but it’s very difficult to quote a quote mark. ;)

]]> By: Find your external IP from the CLI « Linux & Stuff http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/04/07/how-to-find-your-public-ip-address-with-the-linux-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10629 Find your external IP from the CLI « Linux & Stuff Sun, 10 May 2009 12:00:10 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2359#comment-10629 [...] 09/05/2009 in CLI | Tags: CLI Here’s how. [...] [...] 09/05/2009 in CLI | Tags: CLI Here’s how. [...]

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