I whole heartedly agree!
top post rules!
Derek B. Smith
OhioHealth IT
UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams
"Ryan Frantz"
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RE: host id
Sure, don't top-post. But then who's gonna bother to scroll to the end
of the email as the thread gets longer? Many users don't even realize
that there is a reply in bottom-posted emails. Bottom-posting ignores
the natural behavior of most users.
Another example of human behavior (top vs. bottom):
Q: Where's the first place your eyes take you when you visit a web page?
A: The upper left quadrant of the page. Not the bottom.
As an added note, just get over it. It's nothing to sweat.
ry
-----Original Message-----
From: Wiggins d'Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:02 PM
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Subject: Re: host id
"Because it's up-side down.
Why is that?
It makes replies harder to read.
Why not?
Please don't top-post." - Sherm Pendley, Mac OS X list
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> I, being too lazy to look up a perl function, would use hostname
command in
> backticks like so:
>
> $HostID = `hostname`;
>
Right which is why the above is "too lazy". Anyone reading this please
don't settle for the above, it is error prone, insecure, and
insufficient. There is no error checking, there at least needs to be a
full path, and it is potentially slower.
> Not sure if that will catch a newline character so I would also follow
it
> with this:
>
> $HostID =~ s/\n//;
Right, in which case we can at least suggest 'chomp',
perldoc -f chomp
http://danconia.org
>
> -----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?
>
>
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