Lots of people are behind (NAT) routers these days. If you're behind such a device and you want to see your external IP address (not the 192.168.... one), then feel free to use LWP or whatnot to fetch this url and parse the simple document it returns. (But please don't use this in code that's distributed to more than a handlful of people. Put the attached code on your own server instead.) 
---------- BEGIN /cgi-bin/ip_addr ----------
#!/bin/sh

cat << __EOI__
Content-Type: text/html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>ip address</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Your ip address is $REMOTE_ADDR.</p>
  </body>
</html>
__EOI__
----------- END /cgi-bin/ip_addr -----------

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Update: Come to think of it, my script was meant for human eyes. If you wanted something for a script to read, it would be rewritten as:

---------- BEGIN /cgi-bin/ip_addr_as_text ----------
#!/bin/sh

cat << __EOI__
Content-Type: text/plain

$REMOTE_ADDR
__EOI__
----------- END /cgi-bin/ip_addr_as_text -----------

---------- BEGIN client code ----------
use LWP::Simple ();
$content = LWP::Simple::get("http://bla/cgi-bin/ip_addr_as_text");
die(...) unless (LWP::Simple::is_success());
chomp($content);
----------- END client code -----------

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In reply to Re: localhost IP in a dollar sign by ikegami
in thread localhost IP in a dollar sign by chiburashka

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