How to ping and return only the IP address?

billymayday · 05-07-2009, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sergei Steshenko

Why does IP address has to be returned through 'ping' in the first place ? I.e. why not to resolve hosts without 'ping' ?

Exactly, see post #2.

Ping really isn't the tool for the job.

david1941 · 05-07-2009, 04:08 PM

try this:

host yahoo.com |grep -m 1 address|cut -d \ -f 4

(Note there is two spaces between the \ and the -)

ghostdog74 · 05-07-2009, 07:13 PM

@OP, read the awk manual. the answers are there on what is NR, gsub.

hukona · 11-23-2015, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guest

Is there a simple way to return an IP by pinging a hostname? Ideally it takes low resources because I have a lot of hostnames to ping!

Thanks in advance

just try typing:

ping -c1 -q yahoo.com | grep 'PING' | cut -d \ -f 3 | egrep -o '[0-9.]+'

and you will get the result

98.138.253.109

I just used the method offered by david1941 on post #17 and applied to your post #7 changing the grep search from '(' to 'PING' because this word only appears in the line that contains ip you need.

I don't know why but ping seems to be more fast than other, at least as I have compared with hosts.

This worked in linuxmint 17.2 nokia n9, and on terminal android 4.1.2 rooted phone.

LanceTaylor · 11-23-2015, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guest

I'd like a command that returns ONLY the IP, so something that parses the mumbo jumbo results and outputs only:
1.2.3.4

Is what I'm asking for

Code:

host domain.com | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}'

Mayankgirdhar143 · 02-03-2018, 09:36 PM

How we can do same task in windows ?

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jlinkels · 02-04-2018, 05:29 AM

If I reply now after the thread showed in "latest threads", is it considered necroposting as well?

Anyway, no one seems to have thought about this one:

Code:

jlinkels@donald-pc:~$ fping -a -A -q www.google.com
216.58.219.68

Just to complete the discussion

jlinkels

chrism01 · 02-07-2018, 09:06 PM

I so rarely see fping I'd forgotten it exists...

Using older ping

Code:

ping -c 1 fp102.prod.sac.int.threatmetrix.com |head -1|awk '{print $3}|tr -d '()'

is one way.

In re very old comments about eg dig, nslookup etc; maybe the OP wanted IPs for active/up machines only; DNS just tells you what m/cs it knows of - they might not be up/reachable