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How to get external IP address? [SOLVED]
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wuwei


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PostPosted: Mon 03 Jan 2011, 09:15    Post subject:  How to get external IP address? [SOLVED]
Subject description: Get IP address for use in conky		  
This question relates to an old post
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=24927&sid=72e8730e87262e34dcdcca1aa48f6af3

I am trying to pick up my external IP address for conky and found this code on above page

Code:
IPADR=`wget -q "http://ipid.shat.net/iponly" -O - | sed -n 3p`

echo $IPADR


quite helpful for my non-programmer knowledge. However, the result is this:

Quote:
75.112.47.248</title></head>



As I only need the numbers upfront without < and what follows I wonder if anybody has any idea how to change the code to that end?

Very much appreciated
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rcrsn51


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PostPosted: Mon 03 Jan 2011, 10:22    Post subject:  
Code:
IPADR=`wget -q "http://ipid.shat.net/iponly" -O - | sed -n 3p | cut -f 1 -d "<"`
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wuwei


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PostPosted: Mon 03 Jan 2011, 11:07    Post subject: thanks  
Wow
this was fast rcrsn51, and all across the Atlantic.

Best of all....it works like a charm.

Thanks a million.

PS: OS in question is Wary 5.0. This code gives me the external IP. Funny is that Conky in Lupu 519 shows the internal IP when addrs eth0 is entered at the appropriate place in conky.conf. This does not work in Wary. Beats me why, but I am happy with the aforementioned result.
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MagicZaurus

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PostPosted: Mon 03 Jan 2011, 12:19    Post subject: Real IP  
Code:
curl whatismyip.org


This gives me my real external IP address. The code from rcrsn51 gives in my case the IP of my ISP proxy server.
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rcrsn51


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PostPosted: Mon 03 Jan 2011, 12:39    Post subject:  
Using curl is much nicer!
Code:
IPADR=`curl whatismyip.org 2> /dev/null`
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wuwei


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PostPosted: Mon 03 Jan 2011, 14:39    Post subject: external IP address  
@rcrsn51
and
@MagicZaurus

Great, curl works, too.

But why is curl much nicer?
Just a shorter code or does it use less resources? Or what?

Thanks guys.
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