OSX local host name...

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, April 29, 2004, at 04:04 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Is there a way to get the local host name of an OSX machine when it's 
> assigned IP's dynamically?
> hostName() doesn't work
> In particular, I'm looking for a shell command that might return it. 
> Thx!

I realize you are looking for a shell command.  I wonder though, what 
you get with 'the address'?  On my computer with a static IP address it 
looks like the name can be parsed out.

Dar Scott