How to Find My Public IP Address from Linux Command Line
Abstract: Command 2 – Use wget command to get your Public IP address as below example. wget http5 – Use curl command to get your Public address. curl ipecho.net
Public IP is used for communication between computers over the Internet. A computer running with public IP is accessible all over the world using the Internet. So we can say that it is the identity of the computer on the internet. Now the question is how do we know our public IP?. For computers having GUI can easily get there IP using web tools like this but how to get public IP of the computers having terminal access only. The solution is here – use one of the following commands to find public IP of your system using Linux terminal. These are also useful to use in a shell script.
- How to Check Local IP Address on Linux
Use dig command to find your public IP address. The dig command is a DNS lookup utility for Linux systems to look up your public IP address by connecting to the OpenDNS servers.
dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
Use wget command to get your Public IP address as below example.
wget http://ipecho.net/plain -O - -q ; echo
Use curl command to get your Public address.
curl ipecho.net/plain; echo
curl icanhazip.com
curl ifconfig.me
We can simply use following commands in our shell script get our computers public IP and store them in a variable to use anywhere in a shell script.
#!/bin/bash PUBLIC_IP=`wget http://ipecho.net/plain -O - -q ; echo` echo $PUBLIC_IP1234#!/bin/bash PUBLIC_IP=`wget http://ipecho.net/plain -O - -q ; echo`echo $PUBLIC_IP
