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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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  | # usage: `ip4 HOSTNAME` | |
| alias ip4='perl -MSocket -e '\''$pack=gethostbyname($ARGV[0]); print inet_ntoa($pack)'\''' | 
  
    
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  | # returns an IP address for HOSTNAME | |
| perl -MSocket -e '$pack=gethostbyname($ARGV[0]); print inet_ntoa($pack)' HOSTNAME | 
  
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