hostname

Options

--domain, -d

hostname-help-domain

--ip-address, -i

hostname-help-ip-address

--fqdn, -f

hostname-help-fqdn

--short, -s

hostname-help-short

Examples

Show current host name:

hostname

Show the network address of the host name:

hostname {{[-i|--ip-address]}}

Show the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name):

hostname {{[-f|--fqdn]}}

Set current host name:

hostname {{new_hostname}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.