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added READMEs to describe the sense of contrib/ and misc/ `contrib' and `misc' are bad names. If you know better ones, tell me.
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:14:09 +0200
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#!/bin/sh
#
# try several ways to guess the hostname
# earlier output lines are probably better

(

# this is what Debian uses
cat /etc/mailname

# probably a good value on GNU/Linux
hostname -f

# this is often the short hostname
cat /etc/hostname

# often the short hostname, but widely available
hostname

# this file was mentioned on the Internet
cat /etc/HOSTNAME

) 2>/dev/null | uniq

exit 0