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z0ny

May 4 2004, 04:24 PM

Here's a command that shows your public IP, no matter whether you're behind a router:

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wget -q www.whatismyip.com && grep displaycopy index.html|cut -d\' -f2 && rm -f index.html

z0ny

tek-69

May 5 2004, 06:16 PM

kick ass man, thanks

anyweb

Sep 21 2007, 07:12 AM

the above scrfipt doesnt seem to work anymore, perhaps because www.whatismyip.com have changed their code, (looking in index.html tells you to use a different url)

so i modified it slightly so now it reads

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wget -q www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp && cat n09230945.asp && rm -f n09230945.asp

which does display the ip but it's badly formatted,

QUOTE

[anyweb@localhost ~]$ wget -q www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp && cat n09230945.asp && rm -f n09230945.asp
81.235.240.204[anyweb@localhost ~]$

so who can tidy it up ?

cheers
anyweb

znx

Sep 21 2007, 05:06 PM

QUOTE

so who can tidy it up ?

CODE

$ wget -q http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp -O - && echo

Done

xDamox

Dec 13 2007, 02:06 PM

I updated the command

CODE

elinks --dump www.whatismyip.com | grep -i "Your IP Is" | awk '{ print $4 }'

znx

Dec 13 2007, 03:00 PM

QUOTE (xDamox @ Dec 13 2007, 01:06 PM)

I updated the command

Not to sound a bit funny but why update the command when mine still works just perfectly? Also you are using the main URL which anyweb has already pointed out doesn't wish automation!

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$ wget -q http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp -O - && echo

Still works fine!

xDamox

Dec 14 2007, 09:37 AM

Ahhh poo, sorry znx I didn't try yours

Sorry.

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