Force a program to use IPv4 or IPv6 by overriding getaddrinfo().

Example:

 $ force-inet4 curl -v http://www.google.de 2>&1 | grep 'Connected to'
 Connected to www.google.de (173.194.113.120) port 80 (#0)

Caveats

Does not work with ping:

$ getcap /usr/bin/ping
/usr/bin/ping = cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+ep

Credits

Based on this gist by @winny-: https://gist.github.com/winny-/7367518