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HOSTNAME(1) General Commands Manual HOSTNAME(1)

hostname — set or print name of current host system

hostname [-s] [name-of-host]

Hostname prints the name of the current host. The super-user can set the hostname by supplying an argument; this is usually done in the network initialization script /etc/netstart, normally run at boot time.

Options:

Trims off any domain information from the printed name.

gethostname(2), sethostname(2)

The hostname command appeared in 4.2BSD.

BSD 4.2 April 28, 1995 HOSTNAME(1)