Initialization in shell script

Hi,
I need to initialize variables to get mt hostname in shell script. How do I do that? I also need to pass an input param from Java to script. Help me how do I do all these.

Thanks,
-N

Since you talk of a shell script then I assume you are using some version of Unix/Linux. To get the hostname in Unix/Linux you use the 'hostname' command so you can make your Java program accept command line parameters and pass the hostname as a parameter. For example
java YourProgramMainClass -hostname $(hostname)

I don't understand what you mean by "I also need to pass an input param from Java to script" . Do you mean you want to return a value or values from your Java program back to the script that invoked it? If so then write the values to the Java program 'stdout' using System.out and then read the 'stdout' inside your script.

If you need the current machine's hostname you can also use InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName().