Howto: Get the IP address of a domain in a one liner

May 12th, 2011

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I have a need in a bash shell to get the public IP address of a domain name. Here's how to achieve it:

andrew@andrew:~$ dig +short A www.euperia.com
193.228.155.183

Cool huh?