Environment vars calling programs

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?

The quotes arent pointing the right way?

use `command` instead of 'command' 
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