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Re: Getting hostname



On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:11:57PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Matt Zimmerman]
> >> a) Can I get the hostname in my shell script another way (this could be a
> >> question for this list)?
> > 
> > getent hosts foo.bar.baz
> 
> getent is available on Linux and Solaris (7 and 8).
> 
> It is not available on Tru64 Unix 5.2, Irix 6.5.15, Mac OS X 10.2,
> HP-UX (11.00 and 11.22) and AIX (5.1).

But the question was directed to debian-devel, not
bunch-of-broken-OSes-devel.

-- 
 - mdz



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