Title: Get your external IP address from the command line.
Date: Feb. 17, 2013
URL: https://monsterb.github.io/notes/notes002.txt
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Author: monsterb



Get your external IP address from the command line.

This one is from BSDGurl. Dependencies: curl,wget

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



These two are from Aaron B. The first one (ftp -V -o - http://ip.qbit.io) works with base OpenBSD and FreeBSD with zero external dependencies! The second one needs 'curl'.

  $ ftp -V -o - http://ip.qbit.io

and

  $ curl ifconfig.me

You can find a few more at http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5427/get-your-external-ip-address