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How To Find My Public IP Address From Linux CLI

How To Find My Public IP Address From Linux CLI

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Learn how to find your public IP Address?


You might already know how to find your public IP address in GUI. You can simply do a Google search and know your public IP address: You can search for terms like “What is my IP address“. You can also check in websites like https://whatismyipaddress.com/. But if you want to simply know your IP address from the CLI this article will help you understand just that.

What you will learn in this article:

Use 3rd party web-sites to get your IP at shell prompt​

Beware

Beware as it uses other website and can cause security risks. You can use anyone of the commands listed below The syntax for the curl command are as follows:

curl checkip.amazonaws.com
curl ifconfig.me
curl icanhazip.com 
curl ipecho.net/plain 
curl ifconfig.co