I need to make a script that gets my public IP address from a website and prints it out.
#!/bin/bash wget http://www.ipchicken.com/ grep I don't know where to go from here.
Please help
- 1What do you mean by "get my ip address from a website and print it out"? Do you just want the ip address of the site itself?– Nasir RileyCommentedMar 9, 2020 at 1:09
- 1what is your question? ... we should not have to guess what you want to know– jsotolaCommentedMar 9, 2020 at 1:41
- 1Does this answer your question? How can I get my external IP address in a shell script?– GAD3RCommentedMar 9, 2020 at 9:25
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What you're trying to do is fragile; it depends on the format of the HTML document returned by ipchicken, and that can change without warning. This currently works for me, your mileage may vary:
$ wget http://www.ipchicken.com/ -qO - | grep -oE "\b([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\b" 108.27.105.76 
- See @freddy 's answer; that doesn't depend on parsing the HTMLCommentedMar 9, 2020 at 1:30
You can use http://plain-text-ip.com/:
wget -qO- http://plain-text-ip.com/; echo 18?.1?.2?.5? answered Mar 9, 2020 at 1:39
