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a short script to get our ip and the cc of that ip according to whois.
2021-04-26 - wikipedia article about whois.
#!/bin/bash
#
# get ip and country of ip and echo these to stdout
# may output more than one country depending on whois response.
#
# n c timms 2021-04-26
#
# var
# getmyipurl is what we give to curl to go get our ip
# change this to use the service of your choice
#
getmyipurl="https://mingmengtou.org/cgi-bin/myip.sh"
#
# put ip in var myip
# curl silent to avoid fetching output
#
myip=$(curl -s $getmyipurl)
#
# put country in var
# whois provides information about myip
# grep extracts country info from whois repsponse then
# awk prints col 2 of the country info: just the country code.
#
country=$(whois $myip | grep country | awk '{ print $2 }')
#
# echo results
echo $myip $country
exit 0
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