scripting with hostname

[remus]

Hi all,

I'm writing a bash script to do a backup, and am wondering how I use the hostname in a bash script in tinycore.

If I type hostname enter from the prompt, I get the following.

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$ hostname
backserver
However I have had no luck using it in my script. I just want to echo the hostname of the server running the script into a log file, that has some other stuff in it.

Any suggestions and comments welcome.

Thanks.

[Rich]

Hi remus
This will append the hostname to the end of filename.log:

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hostname >> filename.log