Re: hostname command

2010-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/11/2010 10:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> PS. the builtin hostname in bash just ignore options. I am referring >> to /bin/hostname.exe. > > Bash does not have a builtin hostname. When you type hostname in bash, > you ARE using /bin/hostname, which is currently from coreutils. Also, you need t

Re: hostname command

2010-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/09/2010 12:15 AM, Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen wrote: Hi "hostname" in cygwin does not accept the normal unix/linux options as "-f", "-d", etc. That's correct - cygwin's hostname(1) comes from coreutils, which does not support all the options that some other hostname(1) implementations