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Author: JonathanFurrerjonny@jofu.com
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Subject: Environment vars calling programs
ticks! :)

`/bin/hostname`


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Jonathan Furrer

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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Don Harrop wrote:

> Ok, here's the first HP-UX question. I want to setup the HOSTNAME var to
> function like it does under Linux. If I set HOSTNAME='/bin/hostname' and
> echo $HOSTNAME I get '/bin/hostname' printed back, not the hostname of the
> machine.. Any ideas?
>
> Don
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