hostid(1)

hostid1

Print the numeric identifier for the current host

Usage

hostid [OPTION]

Overview

Print the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) for the current host.

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Releases

18 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 14 times.

  1. 1.1–2.0
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13
  15. Arch

--help since Debian 2.2 (Potato); --version since Debian 2.2 (Potato).

Author

Written by Jim Meyering.

Reporting bugs

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From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.