From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2002-04-26T06:56:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Hostname command

"Victor Manuel Reyes Viloria" <vmreyes@us.ibm.com> wrote in message news:<OFAD460BFE.ACA67752-ON85256BA4.0062D0F8@pok.ibm.com>...
> Perhaps I don't know what you guys are talking about, but I get my windows
> hostname with either one of these expressions:
> 
> hn = system("hostname")
> puts hn
> 
> or the following":
> 
> puts system("hostname")
> 
> Victor

A couple of problems.  First, this creates a subprocess, which may not
be something you want to do.  Also, the command's output will be sent
to STDOUT, which you *probably* don't want.

Now, I realize you could also use IO.popen to assign the output to a
variable instead of STDOUT, but you're still creating a subprocess
using that method.

Mostly, however, I proposed this because, hey, Perl has it. :)

Regards,

Dan