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makh

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Registered: 2011-10-10

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[SOLVED] Host command

Hi

Debian has a host command to return IP address. I couldnt locate the host command in arch, or is it available in some group package?

Thankyou

Last edited by makh (2018-09-27 02:06:12)

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Host command

Pacman#Querying_package_databases

# pacman -Fy
$ pacman -Fo /usr/bin/host

There is also `ip a`

Edit:
Deleted reference to `ip -a` thought you wanted the ip address of the current host.

Last edited by loqs (2018-09-26 23:47:53)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Host command

You might also prefer `getent hosts` or `getent ahosts` which is provided by glibc.

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makh

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Re: [SOLVED] Host command

Thankyou

@Trilby: I simply wanted to get the IP address of a machine in local network. But I will try to understand this command. Thankyou

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