HOSTNAME: environment variable or not?

[Francois Ouellette]

>> I'm confused.    Can someone enlighten me as to this bash nuance.
>
> hostname is a user command, not a shell variable. cat
> /proc/sys/kernel/hostname should yield the same result.
>
> Peter
> --

Why not use:
uname -n
instead?

 François Ouellette
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