Get external IP in a script
Ever need to get the external IP address of the server a script is running on?
localhost [~] $ curl http://icanhazip.com
129.121.176.228There's also the more professional looking (yet less fun) alternative URL of http://ifconfig.me/ip
Written by James Barnett
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