How to Get Public External IP From Command Line Terminal - Linux
Submitted by ingram on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 1:59pm
If you are trying to find out what your public external IP address is, you typically go to a web site specifically for this purpose, such as ipchicken.com or whatsmyip.org. Thanks to cURL, you can easily do this from the command line too. To install cURL, run the following command:
- Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install curl
- openSUSE: sudo zypper install curl
To find out what public IP you are using, run this command:
curl ifconfig.me
A single line will be returned containing your public external IP address.
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You can get the same results
You can get the same results using wget:
wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip
the site ifconfig.me is down.
the site ifconfig.me is down.
"curl whatismyip.org" will
"curl whatismyip.org" will also work (and seems to have a faster response at least from my location)
Here's one that works a bit
Here's one that works a bit faster: wget -qO- ipecho.net/plain
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot!
If you install cURL or wget
If you install cURL or wget on Windows, you can use these same commands to find your external IP in Windows also.
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Thanks for sharing the
Thanks for sharing the information ingram.I use Ip-details.com for IP and Host Search.
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