[nlo]

Within the past year I discovered dig's +short parameter, which let me retire some scripts I had for parsing just the IPs out of dig's output. e.g.:

dig +short google.com

[shii]

Yeah +short is pretty cash. I alias this[1] little magic glue to wiki and use that a lot instead of wasting precious milisecs on HTML and silly styling.

[1]: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2829/query-wikipe...