[ale] Get host's IP address as an unprivileged user?

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

I need to get the IP address of the local machine on which a script is
being executed. The script is going to be run by an unprivileged user
(so /sbin is not in the PATH). Does anyone know of a better way than
this:

IP=$(host $(hostname) | awk '{print $4}')

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