Emailing about IP changes

Question

You can choose any language. I am interested to know the simplest solution. How can you get your comp's IP and email it?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 27 '09 at 08:18

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Linux bash command line:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr' | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d ' ' -f1 | mail -s 'My IP address' someone@example.com

answered Aug 27 '09 at 08:18

unwind

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '09 at 08:33

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Awk alternative to unwind's solution:

ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' | mail -s "My IP address" some@email.com

answered Aug 27 '09 at 08:33

code90 · Answer 3 · 2010-10-25T21:51:32.583

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there is a website doing this. it will send the ip address to the email address you type in. http://mmmip.com

edited Oct 25 '10 at 21:51

answered Oct 25 '10 at 19:29

code90

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