Hi there, Rather than shelling out to command line tools to get those values, you can use some built-in Ruby functions to achieve the same result. That will make your Vagrantfile a little more cross-platform compatible.
Try something like this: require 'date' username = ENV['USERNAME'] || ENV['USER'] myDate = DateTime.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S') myhostname = "#{username}-linux-vm-#{myDate}" Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64" config.vm.hostname = "#{myhostname}" end Cheers, Jeff On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:48 PM Luke Jaeger <luke.jae...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to set up my Vagrantfile so that it appends the current date > and time to the hostname. > This works on Mac OS but not on Windows. Is there some other way for me to > do this? > thanks! > > ######## > > # -*- mode: ruby -*- > # vi: set ft=ruby : > > # All Vagrant configuration is done below. The "2" in Vagrant.configure > # configures the configuration version (we support older styles for > # backwards compatibility). Please don't change it unless you know what > # you're doing. > > ## THIS IS THE VAGRANTFILE FOR GENERIC 'my-linux-vm' > > username = `whoami`.chomp # you need chomp as the result of the command > executed this way returns \n at the end > myDate = `date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S`.chomp > myhostname = "#{username}-linux-vm-#{myDate}" > Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| > config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64" > config.vm.provision :shell, path: "install-extras.sh" > > # this works: > config.vm.hostname = "#{myhostname}" > > config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v| > v.name = "#{myhostname}" > end > > config.trigger.after :up do |updatePkgs| > updatePkgs.warn = "Checking for software updates" > updatePkgs.run_remote = {inline: "apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade -y"} > end > > config.vm.synced_folder "./shared", "/shared", create: true > > end > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues > IRC: #vagrant on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/b0d1b441-5c01-4d1b-aba9-bed267af120b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/b0d1b441-5c01-4d1b-aba9-bed267af120b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/CAAf6GadUkzE17Jpc8QGWrOJgM%2BKNh1S5REFbLW9Hmyf9PeCnNQ%40mail.gmail.com.