How do I get the hostname in a cross-platform way?
Created May 7, 2012
Erik Hatcher Ant has a mechanism for gathering environment variables. Unfortunately the hostname environment variable is different on Windows versus Unix boxes, but Ant's property immutability helps us out:
<target name="set-name"> <property environment="env"/> <property name="env.HOSTNAME" value="${env.COMPUTERNAME}"/> <echo message="host = ${env.HOSTNAME}"/> </target>HOSTNAME is the environment variable on Unix platforms (at least on the ones I've used - please alert me if this is not always the case), and COMPUTERNAME on Windows platforms.