ant machine name property

Question

Is there a way to get the machine name as ant property, for both Linux and Windows OS.

Answer 1

You can use the environment variables $HOSTNAME (UNIX) and %COMPUTERNAME% (Windows) for this. You can check to see if the environment variable HOSTNAME has been defined and, if not, you can then use the environment variable COMPUTERNAME, assuming it is defined. As a fallback, you can use "unknown".