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How to check IP address from command line | Internal and External

Check your Internal IP address

To check you current machines addres: "ip add" or "ip addr" or;

ip address

Check your external IP address

First make sure that the curl command is installed. If not, do this

sudo apt install curl

By using curl, check the external address by doing this;

curl -w "\n" -s https://api.ipify.org

That should give an output of your external IP address.