I, being too lazy to look up a perl function, would use hostname command in backticks like so:
$HostID = `hostname`; Not sure if that will catch a newline character so I would also follow it with this: $HostID =~ s/\n//; -----Original Message----- From: Bret Goodfellow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:36 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: host id Simple question to answer, I hope. I am running on an HP-UX system, and would like to retrive the UNIX system's host-id (name of box). Is there a function to do this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
