While I personally have it, since I'm a heavy user of MinGW, I bet 99% of Windows users don't have wget. ;-)
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > If you can get it to work, the beauty of whatismyip.org is that there is > absolutely no extraneous stuff to parse out and get rid of. Indeed. Thanks for that one. Here's another one-liner: wget -q http://whatismyip.org/ -O - "-q" tells it to be quiet, and "-O -" sends output to standard out. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
