Environment vars calling programs

[Jonathan Furrer]

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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