in reply to Dashes vs slashes in a oneliner
Using my psychic powers, I predict your old box didn't have a dash anywhere within the hostname, but the new one does.
Do I win the prize?
The dashes are just delimiters, but you have to be careful as to what uname -n returns.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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