getting IP address of router

[jim ruxton]

> >> echo "abc IP: 1.2.3.4</title>"|sed  's/.* IP: \(.*\)<\/title>.*/\1/'
> >>
> > Yup this works??
> 
> Therefore whatever that site returns does not match the regexp above. 
> Fix the regexp. I suggest that a better regexp will be:
> 
> 's/IP:[ \t]*\(.*\)<\/title>.*/\1/'
> 
> (and this time pipe the output of curl into it). If it still does not 
> work, *do* look at the output of curl character by character, f.ex. 
> using od -Ax -tax1
Thanks Peter. Strange thing is that the same script works for other
people. It must be shell or version dependant?
# curl -s -o - http://www.myip.dk | sed  's%.* IP: \(.*\)</title>.*%\1%'
> 
> good luck,
> Peter
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