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[m3th]

If your behind a router , and like me too lazy to open a browser and find a site that displays your ip , heres a simple Bash script (Bash is a shell in linux, main shell in Slackware Linux)

Open a text editor , copy and paste the following:

#! /bin/bash

exip=`lynx -dump http://www.whatismyip.com | head -n 2`
echo "$exip"

Save the txt ( for the sake of agrument we will refer the file as ip.sh)
From console type:
chmod a+x ip.sh
Now run the script like so:
./ip.sh (which will display something like the following)
Your IP Is XX.XXX.XXX.XX
Done!

I will explain what we just did in the script.

!# /bin/bash <- Tells what shell we using, this line is always here but /bin/bash may be changed, depending on your system

exip=`lynx -dump http://www.whatismyip.com | head -n 2` <- We setup a variable and run some console commands, lynx is a txt mode browser the we send it to head, which takes only the first to lines.

echo "$exip" <- We echo the content of exip variable to screen

chmoding to a+x just makes the file executable..

I know there a billion ways to do this, but it gets job done ...

[moonwitch]

You could/should also include links instead of lynx. Usually links is installed, for lynx you have to select individual packages, which not everyone does. (I do but that's not the point )

In any way, Links looks better than lynx. And the speed of both is the same

It's not a very long tutorial but it's nice.

[jet]

Nice tutorial.. Though my IP changes every once in a while and I've never had to know it for anything. But if we ever get stuck in linux and need to know ..

[OldSkuBoi]

lol nice tuturial. I would use it but, my ip stays the same. Been the same ip for like over 1 year. Maybe i should reset my ip.

[saneax]

nice script..I find it usefull.. good work!

[SiriusRo]

Does this display my ip address or the person who is looking at the script's ip address, or does it show everyone my ip address

[toby]

Bash is non-windows Command Prompt.

Nice idea, I'm surprised it works.

[ethergeek]

You could/should also include links instead of lynx. Usually links is installed, for lynx you have to select individual packages, which not everyone does. (I do but that's not the point )

In any way, Links looks better than lynx. And the speed of both is the same

It's not a very long tutorial but it's nice.

Why lynx? wget is more common on unix based default installs these days than lynx or links or elinks (or any other text browser for that matter).

[darkken]

Why can't you use ifconfig built-in to display the ip address. Simple and works great.

[dmnhunter]

! /bin/bash

exip=`lynx -dump http://www.Whatismyip.Com | head -and 11`
#Echo "$exip"
curl -o /dev/null -s -u twittername:twitpasswd -d status="$exip" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml




Now if you setup a misc twitter account you can send this information to you if you happen to be on the road and need to know the ip to get in.

just insert your new twittername and paswd here and be sure to make those tweets private and then follow with your primary twitter account.


I use this from everything to knowing if root logs in to server powerdown and reboots.......

Very handy.