How to find a Linux server public IP address, from its terminal

Today, I would like to summarize some of the commands I usually use when I want to check the public IP address used by a server when connected through SSH. It’s a very simple post, yet I think that can help people at some point:

Using curl, the easiest way in my opinion:

curl ifconfig.me

Using dig and OpenDNS, way too complicated if you ask me:

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

Using wget, if curl is not available (that should never happen though), the file will be downloaded (index.html). You might use a command with pipe in order to get the IP address from the downloaded content:

wget http://monip.org