Determining IP addr via script?

[edj]

On Mon July 8 2002 05:22 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Anyone know a simple way to determine what your public IP address
> appears to be via a shell script? I can do it with a web browser by
> going to http://www.whatismyip.com .
>
> (BTW, I'm not talking about the IP addr assigned to a NIC and readable
> by ifconfig.)

My knowledge is so limited, I hesitate to say, but I use the following, 
picked up from somewhere . . . . 

#!/bin/bash
lynx -auth=admin:admin http://192.168.1.1/Status.htm

Connects to the router and gives IP & all the other stuff, as well.  

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Ed Jabbour