Why
I am often in need of my current VPN IP address especially while doing CTFs.
I first solve my issue by creating an alias that I can call anytime
alias vpnip='echo $(ifconfig tun0 | grep "inet " | cut -b 9- | cut -d" " -f2)'
but I found myself typing that alias too often that I thought that having this information visually available would be more convenient.
How to
First let’s move our vpnip alias to a script
Now let’s follow the steps
On this screen, we can select our script
Here is the online and polished version
and while “not online”, there is not going to be any information to show like below
Troubleshoot
We might have the following
To solve that, we need to make our script executable
