NAME

hostname — set or print name of current host system

SYNOPSIS

hostname

[-s] [name-of-host]

DESCRIPTION

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

Options:

-s

Trims off any domain information from the printed name.

SEE ALSO

domainname(1), gethostname(3), sethostname(3)

HISTORY

The hostname utility appeared in 4.2BSD.