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Subject: Re: Userland "dig/host" for lookups against /etc/hosts?
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it was said:

>It works if I ping 'hostname', but how can I find out the IP of
>'hostname' from the command line?

Hello,

Would not grep 'hostname' /etc/hosts do this?

HTH,

stheg


		
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