Geeklets

Note: For this to work correctly you have to have lynx installed in `/opt/local/bin` - i.e. you have to install it via macports:

If you don't want to go to the trouble of getting MacPorts, you can install Lynx on it's own, and modify the script - most likely to `/usr/local/bin`

Thanks Matt for the additional info!

you jus do this

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ifconfig | grep 'broadcast'| awk '{print $2 }'

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does the same thing

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nice

You don't need lynx for this, curl can do the job (and is installed on every mac).

Here is the command I'm using to get the IP from my NETGEAR WNDR3400v2 router running the firmware version V1.0.0.34_1.0.52

echo "IP address\n$(curl -u admin:password http://192.168.1.1/RST_st_dhcp.htm 2>/dev/null | egrep -iA 2 "ip address" | egrep -o '([0-9]{1,3}\.?){4}')"

You may need a different pattern to search for, so open the status page of your router's web interface and study the HTML source code. In my case, the relevant part looks like this:

Edit: Nevermind, the markdown on this site is broken.

If you put your password in ~/.netrc ( see the curl manual page), then you may use

this command for a QWest or Century Link modem:

> curl -s --netrc http://192.168.0.1/modemstatus_home.html

That gets you the raw text, then a grep for

> var wanInfNames = htmlDecodeStr

Gets you a line with all sorts of great things to know about the modem. I parsed

that with a little perl, and now I have a near-real-time external IP address.