Current IP address as visible from the internet?

Question

I know I can get the locally assigned IP address of my current machine by the local router like so:

ifconfig

However, I want to know what my IP address is as visible from the outside world. Or, in other words, the IP address of the upper-most router within my private network. Normally I could just ask Google "my ip", but I want this to be scriptable.

Is there a way to figure out this address from CLI without just scraping the results of the above Google search?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22615/how-can-i-get-my-external-ip-address-in-bash — Vombat, Nov 25 '13 at 19:24

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '13 at 19:51

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You can use :

curl ifconfig.me

answered Nov 25 '13 at 19:51

Rahul Patil

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Current IP address as visible from the internet?

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