NAME
hostname —
set or print name of current host
system
SYNOPSIS
hostname |
[-s] [name-of-host] |
DESCRIPTION
Thehostname utility is used to set or print the name of
the current host. If no argument is given, the name of the current host is
printed.
The host name can be set by the superuser either by specifying name-of-host, or by supplying a myname(5) file, which is used at system boot time by netstart(8) to initialize the hostname.
The options are as follows:
-s- Trims off any domain information from the printed name.
SEE ALSO
domainname(1), gethostname(3), myname(5), hostname(7), netstart(8)
HISTORY
The hostname utility appeared in
4.2BSD.