Sesame is an astronomical object name resolver provided by Virtual Observatory.
munipack sesame [.. options ..] object
Sesame utility resolves name of an object and returns ICRS coordinates (Right Ascension, Declination) of the object in degrees. The engine sends a HTTP query to some Virtual observatory server and getting the coordinates by parsing of the answer.
Web interface is provided by SIMBAD: basic query.
Use the command to get coordinates of β Perseii:
$ munipack sesame "beta per" 47.04221856 40.95564667