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   Bit Twister to All   
   Re: IP address   
   21 Jan 20 04:51:25   
   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:27:39 -0000 (UTC), au76666 wrote:   
   > I'm asked to provide my IP address. How do I find that out?   
   > I am sure there is a Linux command, but I don't know it.   
   >   
      
   > I'm having a problem with downloading articles from a journal, to   
   > which the university I work at subscribes - or has been doing. The   
   > library in charge, whom I asked for help, is now asking for my IP   
   > address. So, how do I find out what it is?   
      
   Depends if curl or wget is installed. Try any of the following:   
      
   curl http://icanhazip.com   
   curl http://ident.me   
   curl whatismyip.akamai.com   
   wget -qO - http://icanhazip.com   
   wget -qO - http://ident.me/   
   wget -qO - http://smxi.org/opt/ip.php   
      
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