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Perl one-liner to get IP address from mDNS/DNS/Bonjour/whatever - works on any *nix that supports getHostByName
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ip4-alias.sh
# usage: `ip4 HOSTNAME`
alias ip4='perl -MSocket -e '\''$pack=gethostbyname($ARGV[0]); print inet_ntoa($pack)'\'''
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ip4.sh
# returns an IP address for HOSTNAME
perl -MSocket -e '$pack=gethostbyname($ARGV[0]); print inet_ntoa($pack)' HOSTNAME
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