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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 10-22-2007

Print the first four characters of hostname

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Thanks Mate! I have spent a number of hour trying...

Thanks Mate! I have spent a number of hour trying to find this out?

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 10-19-2007

Print the first four characters of hostname

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Print the first four characters of hostname

Hey,
I'm trying to print the first four characters of the hostname of a computer.

I can get it from using:
hostname -s | sed 's/...........$//'"

but this is when I know how many characters...

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