April 28, 1995 HOSTNAME 1

### 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.