How to find outgoing IP in Linux ?

Here is a small snippet to find outgoing IP of your Linux box.

1. To find the outgoing internal IP only

     

 

# ip route get 8.8.8.8 | head -1 | gawk '{ print $7 }'

2. To find the outgoing internal IP along with interface.

 

# ip route get 8.8.8.8 | head -1 | gawk '{ print $5,$7 }'

3. In-case if your system is connected to Internet, to find the outgoing external IP

 

# curl ifconfig.me

Note:  In case if your system having public IP assigned then there is no difference between outgoing internal IP and external IP (both are same).