getent hosts

Shell Programming and Scripting
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korn shell script on Solaris

getent hosts <hostname> returns
IP FQDN

But I just want the output to be like this
<hostname> IP

things I have tried so far

getent hosts <hostname> |awk '{print $2,$1}'

using awk and substr

getent hosts <hostname> |nawk '{print substr($2,1,5)}'

using cut command

getent hosts <hostname> |cut -f2,1

any ideas?
I am planning on just 2 seperate commands to get my output but I want to see if I can do this using the getent hosts command

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getent ...|read a b 
echo $b $a                  # need parens from read in bash