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 hostname by supplying an argument. This is usually done in the network initialization script /etc/netstart, run at boot time.

The following options are available:

-s Trims off any domain information from the printed name.

SEE ALSO gethostname(2), sethostname(2)

HISTORY The hostname command appeared in 4.2BSD.

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