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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding your remote host's name
Message-ID: <17060@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 90 18:21:12 GMT
References: <1990Jun6.091842.11335@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk> <1211@tuewsd.win.tue.nl>
Reply-To: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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In article <1211@tuewsd.win.tue.nl> wswietse@lso.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema) writes:
>scm@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk (Steve Mawer) writes:
>
>>If I `rlogin' from machine1 to machine2, is there a simple and (relatively)
>>portable way to find out on machine2 the name of machine1?  I'd like to do
>>this from a shell script if possible, but I'm willing to write C code if
>>necessary.
>
>/* fromhost - print name of host we are logged in from */

< Extensive C code deleted >

YOW! I don't see at all why it has to be that complicated. We can just
do this:

set from = `who am i | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1`

and do with $from as we wish.

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