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Re: truncate the hostname of local computer

Subject: Re: truncate the hostname of local computer
From: Steve Ingram <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:52:35 -0800


On Dec 10, 2004, at 12:54 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:

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.

Although I haven't tried the other excellent suggestions, I did the above first and got the result I was hoping for.

Thanks to everyone for the quick and helpful responses.

Steve Ingram

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