GETHOSTIP(1)

💖 GETHOSTIP 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the gethostip(1) glow-up ✨ this is a page from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix docs, and we're about to make it make sense fr fr 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

gethostip — convert an IP address into various formats 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gethostip [-dxnf]  [HOSTNAME|IP]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

This manual page documents briefly the gethostip command. Yes, briefly — it said what it said 💀

The gethostip utility converts the given hostname or IP address into a variety of formats. It is provided by the syslinux package, and its whole reason for existing is to make it easier to calculate the appropriate names for pxelinux configuration files 🌈

And these filenames? They can be:

• the complete hexadecimal representation for a given IP address, or
• a partial hexadecimal representation to match a range of IP addresses 👀

so basically it's the ✨main character✨ of pxelinux filename math, no cap.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

A summary of options is included below. Yes bestie, we're listing every single one, we don't skip 💖

• -d — Output the IP address in decimal format.
• -x — Output the IP address in hexadecimal format.
• -n — Output the host's canonical name.
• -f — Full output. Outputs the IP address in all supported formats. Same as -xdn. It's giving the whole menu, not just the appetiser 🍓

ngl, -f is literally just -xdn with a cuter outfit. same energy, same output.

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• syslinux(1)

More details can be found in the pxelinux documentation, which can be found in /usr/share/doc/syslinux/pxelinux.doc.gz on Debian GNU/Linux systems. go read it, iykyk 📖✨

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

This manual page was compiled by dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). iconic of them, honestly 👑

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 💅💖 mwah! this was GETHOSTIP(1) from the General Commands Manual — compiled for Debian GNU/Linux, and yes, it slays 🦋🌸✨