[Techtalk] Discovering my IP address

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 14 March 2004 7:43 pm, John Clarke wrote:
> > I don't have a static IP address, but I have just discovered that I need 
to 
> > know my IP address for an application for uni.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to find out what it is?
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig eth1|awk '$0 ~ /inet addr:/ {sub(/addr:/,"",$2); print $2}'
> 

Anyone care to contribute a nice 50-line Perl script to do the same thing?

:)
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