1 HOSTNAME(1) User Commands HOSTNAME(1) 2 3 4 5 NAME 6 hostname - set or print name of current host system 7 8 SYNOPSIS 9 /usr/bin/hostname [-fs | name-of-host] 10 11 12 DESCRIPTION 13 The hostname command prints the name of the current host, as given 14 before the login prompt. The super-user can set the hostname by giving 15 an argument. 16 17 18 OPTIONS 19 For compatibility long arguments are also supported. 20 21 22 -f, --fqdn, --long print out the fully qualified domain name. 23 24 -s, --short strip domain information from hostname. 25 26 27 The hostname command cannot be used to set the fqdn, long or short 28 name. 29 30 31 SEE ALSO 32 uname(1), attributes(5) 33 34 35 36 May 11, 2016 HOSTNAME(1)