# Print IP address of hostname if resolvable
gethostbyname ()
{
- perl -MSocket -e '($a,$b,$c,$d,@addrs) = gethostbyname($ARGV[0]); print inet_ntoa($addrs[0]) . "\n";' $1 2>/dev/null
+ python -c 'import socket; import sys; print socket.gethostbyname(sys.argv[1])' $1 2>/dev/null
}
# Forcefully make a symlink