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From: ced@apollo.HP.COM (Carl Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: internet address
Message-ID: <5011a909.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 18:39:00 GMT
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From article <9102261044.AA02546@apo.esiee.fr>, by bonnetf@apo.esiee.fr (bonnet-franck):
> Hi,
> 
> Does somebody knows how to get the internet address of a machine
> when I am working on it ( whithout looking in /etc/hosts ) ?
> 

I use a shell command:

	% /etc/ping `/etc/hostname` 64 1

which says:

	ping the host I'm logged into once, with a 64 byte packet.

If you need to get just the Internet address, you can extract it from the
with your favorite test reprocessor, i.e. sed, awk, perl,...

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