On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:25:10PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > > Since you asked, and I had wondered about this myself previously, I just > worked it out (or, rather, stumbled across it). The following works for me: > > ping -c 1 hop www.google.com | grep 'bytes from' | cut -d ' ' -f 5 | cut -d > '(' -f 2 | cut -d ')' -f 1 > > Since the ping manpage doesn't actually seem to explain what the hop keyword > does, I'd love to know... :) Try this: lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org |sed -n '/Current/s/.*: \(.*\)/\1/p' It doesn't rely on ICMP packaets, which are blocked by many ISPs and/or network admins. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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