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Commands tagged ip address from sorted by
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ifconfig | sed -n 's/.*inet addr:\([0-9.]\+\)\s.*/\1/p'
2012-07-18 15:38:02
User: bcg62
Functions: ifconfig sed
Tags: IP ip address
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Get the IP address
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ip -f inet a | awk '/inet / { print $2 }'
2012-07-18 15:13:10
User: BorneBjoern
Functions: awk
Tags: awk IP ip address
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Get the IP address

gives u each configured IP in a seperate line.

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nmap -T4 -sn 192.168.1.0/24
2012-06-19 17:07:24
User: drewbled
Tags: Network scanner ip address
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scan subnet for used IPs

Does a ping scan on the local subnet and returns the IPs that are up

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curl ifconfig.me/all
2012-05-16 18:22:28
User: pykler
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP and Network Info

Gets all kind of info, ifconfig.me rocks ...

for just the ip addess you can use ifconfig.me or ifconfig.me/ip

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lynx -dump http://www.ip2location.com/ | sed -n '/^ *Field Name *Value *$/,/^ *\[_\] *Mobile .*Carrier.*name/p'
2012-05-02 15:46:59
User: ariver
Functions: sed
Tags: IP lynx geographical location ip address geoip external ip
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Geographic location and more for current external IP address.
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lynx -dump ip.nu
2012-05-02 14:54:12
User: ariver
Tags: IP lynx ip address external ip
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Show external IP; Short and sweet.
lynx -dump ip.nu

Your IP address is 0.0.0.0

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curl ip.nu
2012-04-08 19:43:36
User: VictorBjelkholm
Tags: Network curl ip address geoip
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Get your external IP address ( 10 characters long )

Shortest url to a external IP-service, 10 characters.

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curl ifconfig.me
2012-02-19 03:25:24
User: kpike
Tags: ip address
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Get your outgoing IP address
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echo -n $(curl -Ss http://icanhazip.com) | xclip
2012-02-17 16:58:40
User: red_five
Functions: echo
Tags: wget ip address
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Get your outgoing IP address

Gets the IP and sticks it into the middle-mouse-click buffer

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wget http://icanhazip.com -qO-
2012-02-17 15:38:51
User: sreimann
Functions: wget
Tags: wget ip address
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Get your outgoing IP address
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w3m mon-ip.com -dump|grep -Eo "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}"|uniq|xclip -selection clipboard
2012-02-06 14:42:03
User: anyname
Functions: grep
Tags: ip address X Window
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Get your external ip right into your xclipboard
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sudo watch arp-scan --interface=wlan0 --localnet
2011-12-30 04:23:00
User: ramaxial
Functions: sudo watch
Tags: bash Linux find list ip address wireless ipv4 arp-scan real-time mac address
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Find & watch active IP and MAC addresses in a wireless network in real time. (IPv4 only)
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wget ifconfig.me/ip -q -O -
2011-11-30 08:30:35
User: DamirX
Functions: wget
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address
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curl icanhazip.com
2011-11-15 19:57:01
User: o0110o
Tags: IP curl ip address
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Get your external public IP address

Grabs your external public IP.

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cat /var/log/auth.log | grep -i "pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure;" | cut -d' ' -f14,15 | cut -d= -f2 | sort | uniq
2011-10-25 04:58:09
User: JohnQUnknown
Functions: cat cut grep sort
Tags: ssh ip address authentication error
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Get a list of IP Addresses that have failed to login via SSH

This command shows a sorted list of the IP addresses from which there have been authentication errors via SSH (possible script kiddies trying to gain access to your server), it eliminates duplicates so it's easier to read, but you can remove the "uniq" command at the end, or even do a "uniq -c" to have a count of how many times each IP address shows in the log (the path to the log may vary from system to system)

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wget -O - -q http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1| cut -c2-
2011-09-17 13:42:01
User: ztank1013
Functions: cut wget
Tags: wget ip address
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Check your ip public using dyndns.org

This is just a "cut" addicted variant of the previous unixmonkey24730 command...

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wget http://checkip.dyndns.org/ -q -O - | grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'
2011-09-17 12:51:06
User: unixmonkey24730
Functions: grep wget
Tags: wget ip address
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Check your ip public using dyndns.org
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curl http://my-ip.cc/host.json
2011-09-01 00:31:49
User: samleb
Tags: Network curl ip address geoip
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Get your external IP address

JSON version.

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

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curl http://my-ip.cc/host.xml
2011-09-01 00:30:03
User: samleb
Tags: Network curl ip address geoip
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Get your external IP address

XML version.

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

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curl http://my-ip.cc/host.txt
2011-09-01 00:28:49
User: samleb
Tags: Network curl ip address geoip
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Get your external IP address

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

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geoip() { lynx -dump "http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$1&position=true"; }
2011-05-10 21:44:07
User: unixmonkey7753
Tags: bash locate geographical location ip address geoip
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Geolocate a given IP address

Defines a function to geolocate a given IP address; if none supplied, will default to your external IP address.

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curl ifconfig.me
2010-12-21 19:54:47
User: lucafaus
Tags: ip address what-is-my-ip
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get you public ip address
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curl http://ifconfig.me/ip
2010-12-21 18:57:32
User: VxJasonxV
Tags: ip address what-is-my-ip
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get you public ip address

Relies on ifconfig.me functioning. It's about as easy as it gets, and memorable to old geeks too.

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getent hosts google.com | awk '{print $1}'
2010-11-03 12:02:05
User: depesz
Functions: awk getent
Tags: IP ip address host
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Get just the IP for a hostname

has the benefit of being a bit more cross-platform.

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host google.com|awk '{print $NF}'
2010-11-03 11:15:30
User: aitilang
Functions: awk host
Tags: IP ip address host
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Get just the IP for a hostname
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