Re: :) Missing command ;(

From: Gerhard Thimm (gthimm@zbw.ch)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 09:14:13 CEST


Jochen Cichon schrieb:
>
> Hi,
>
> the installed muLinux works fine, and I use it for teaching some friends
> ind Linux. (Because it's so small they can install on their machines
> without new harddisk!)
>
> And there are some nice Programs missing WHOAMI, HOSTNAME
> sure they are really tiny, but also usefull ?!
>
> # WHOAMI
> set |grep USER|sed s/USER=//

nice pipe, but try also
set | grep USER | cut -d= -f 2

grep selects rows and cut selects columns (field 2 delimited by = in
this case) :-)
but shorter and faster is:
echo $USER

>
> # HOSTNAME
> set|grep HOSTNAME|sed s/HOSTNAME=//

or
echo $HOSTNAME

>
> BYE. Jochen
>
> PS: Even more usefull if you are accessing more than one Computer.

Tried it only on a not mulinux-box :-( but think should also work on
mulinux.
Gerhard

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