Re: truncate the hostname of local computer
Re: truncate the hostname of local computer
- Subject: Re: truncate the hostname of local computer
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:54:20 +0000
on 10/12/04 12:13 am, Steve Ingram wrote:
> In a script we are using to reset the computer name I have the line:
>
> set computerNameNoChange = `/bin/hostname`
>
> This gives me a value of ghs27038.local
>
> This is close to what I want. How do I get computerNameNoChange to
> equal only the first eight characters of /bin/hostname ?
>
> More precisely, how do I get computerNameNoChange to be the value of
> the current computer name, without the ".local" added?
As you are already using the shell you can pipe the result to cut:
/bin/hostname | cut -d. -f1
So that you do it all in one line.
--
Martin Orpen
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