test for name of localhost in script
 

I want to write a script that tests during execution on which machine it is running. I'd like to test for the name of the localhost, something like
But I don't know how to get the name of the localhost. There is no environment variable called $LOCALHOST or the like.

Thanks,
Lotharster

there's always hostname or uname -a

localhost=`hostname`

if test $localhost = whatever
then
something
else
something
fi

Try hostname -f for fully qualified domain or hostname -s for just the hostname cut off at the first dot. You can assign it a variable in your script if you want, i.e. LOCALHOST=`hostname -s`. Note that those are back quotes (the ~ key)

thanks for your quick replies!

Lotharster