How to print your Public IP address on MacOS command line

i.e. how to not have to go to whatsmyip-dot-com

Simply prints out the IP address:

dig -4 TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | sed 's/"//g'

A solution that depends on akamai:

curl -s http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ \
   | grep -E '^(\d|\.)+$'             \
   | xargs -I{} sh -c 'echo "IP: {}";