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Created April 9, 2013 17:19
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A handy way to get your public IP address from a command line. This has been tested on Mac and FreeBSD.
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whatsmyip.sh
#!/bin/sh
curl -s https://www.google.ca/search\?q\=whats+my+ip | awk '{print substr($0,index($0,"Client IP address"),34)}' | cut -d ')' -f 1 | head -n1 | sed 's/Client/Public/'
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