diff --git a/tools/test/bin/find-node.sh b/tools/test/bin/find-node.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+validate_number () {
+    local re="^[0-9]+$"
+    if [[ ! $1 =~ $re ]] ; then
+	return 1
+    fi
+
+    return 0
+}
+
+find_node () {
+    if validate_number $1 ; then
+	# input is a number, try to find if an OC node is defined
+
+	oc_try="OC$1"
+	node=${!oc_try}
+
+	if [ -n "$node" ]; then
+    	    # node lookup succeeded, return node
+	    echo $node
+	else
+    	    # node lookup failed, return original input
+	    echo $1
+	fi
+
+    else
+	echo $1
+    fi
+
+    return 0
+}