The hostname command "one of the most basic of the network administrative utilities" according to linfo.org . I use the command to check whether I am in the TEST or DEV environment to use the FNDLOAD function for copying customizations to the PROD environment. Basically I use a shell script to create the LDT files used for the FNDLOAD to copy paste from TEST to PROD. This ensures no user errors and is much faster using this script. I will go into the FNDLOAD in a future post. So after playing around and googling I found the solution: #!/bin/sh #Creating concurrent and XML Pub reports LDT files APPS_PWD=$1 APPL_NAME=$2 if [ "$APPS_PWD" = "" ] then echo "Usage: make_ldt_files.sh " exit fi; hostname if [ `hostname` = "TEST.ORG.COM" ] then echo "Downloading concurrent definition..." FNDLOAD apps/$APPS_PWD 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcpprog.lct ./APPL_CONC.ldt PROGRAM APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=PLSO CONCURRENT_PROGRA