Password Recovery from stolen hard drive

[J]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 20:19, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
> Maxime Alarie wrote:
>> Sorry I did not test the  script..  This one works: wget -q -O -
>> checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
>>
>>
>> Source:  Same. Just a couple comments down:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-526176.html
>>
> Uh... no it doesn't... See below -
>
> ray at RaysComputer:~$ wget -q -O -checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current
> IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
> wget: missing URL
> Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...

Uh... yes it does:

bladernr at klaatu:~$ wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e
's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
71.XXX.XXX.XXX

(real IP obfuscated)

You were doing:

-O checkip.dyndns.org

and

-O -checkip.dyndns.org

when it should be:

-O - checkip.dyndns.org

I have a feeling it was just a matter of either Maxime's mail client
or your's mangling the line that makes it confusing.

Cheers
Jeff