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ralph on Oct 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in se...

One way:

    wget -Ufoo -qO- 'http://www.google.com/search?q=ip' |
    sed -n '/.*Your public IP address is [^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/{s//\1/p;q;}'

eli on Oct 19, 2011 [–]

Google really doesn't it like it when you script their search. Better to use one of the many, many services designed for this purpose. Or set one up yourself in roughly one line of code.

ralph on Oct 19, 2011 | [–]

True, but the OP asked explicitly for it and no one else seemed to answer that question.

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