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What is the Solaris equivalent of the Linux hostname -f command? On Solaris, when I type hostname, I receive the short name but I need to get the FQDN.
Typing hostname -f sets the short name to be "-f", and the manpage for hostname is pitiful.
This is likely to work:
perl -mNet::Domain -e 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn(), "\n"'
but it's not guaranteed. You can view the module source:
perldoc -m Net::Domain
to see how it works (if you know Perl well enough).
If you are on a system that the DNS knows about, you could try this:
bash-3.00# nslookup `hostname` | grep 'Name:' | awk '{print $2}'
ep60.bar.foo.com
or, as suggested by a commenter, use "host" instead of nslookup:
host $(hostname) | cut -d" " -f1
I tested this successfully on Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.
nslookup has been deprecated for a long time. host or dig are preferred and would involve fewer pipes: host $(hostname) | cut -d" " -f1
Dec 6, 2011 at 20:26
nslookup is part of the POSIX standard, only a hairbrain OS wouldn't include it these days.
nslookup generally still comes with host and dig in the BIND utilities package (OS/distro dependent) but the output from dig is BIND zonefile-compatible and host is slightly easier to parse, therefore I'd say it's better to use host or dig if you can.
Mar 21, 2013 at 9:03
check-hostname | awk '{ print $NF }'
