Re: how to get a host IP address in a script?y

[Alan Cox]

> Hi, does anybody know how to get a host IP address given the host name
> in a script?

X=`host "$HOSTNAME" | grep "$HOSTNAME has address"|cut -f4 -d ' '|tr '\n' ' '`

Should do the job nicely and leave $X holding a list of IP addresses


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