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Old 02-05-2006
alex
 
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Default Re: using curl to log in to router

Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm trying to use curl to log in to a router so I can retrieve the
> current WAN IP address periodically - it changes at least twice a week
> and getting it manually is annoying (obviously I need to do this from
> the LAN side). I can get the appropriate line through curl and grep once


Maybe I'm just lazy, but rather than curl i just use the following line:


wget http://checkip.dyndns.org -qO - | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d '<' -f 1


should work just fine for you.. as long as you have wget & cut.. ;)


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