trying to get my external ip

[motin]

As long as whatismyip.com prints out your IP-Address in the HTML page title, you can use this:

Create shell script:

cd ~
mkdir bin
nano  bin/whatismyip.sh

Insert this into nano:

#!/bin/bash

echo Your external IP Address is:
wget http://Www.whatismyip.com -O - -o /dev/null | grep '<TITLE>' | sed -r 's/<TITLE>WhatIsMyIP\.com \- //g' | sed -r 's/<\/TITLE>//g'

exit 0

Press Ctrl + O, Enter, Ctrl + X, then run:

chmod u+x bin/whatismyip.sh

Now you can check your external IP Address by running:

~/bin/whatismyip.sh