BK-GETHOST(1)

💅 NAME

okay so bestie, this page is all about bk gethost — it's the BitKeeper user's manual entry for displaying the machine name. that's the whole vibe. 🖥️✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk gethost [-nr]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically it outputs the fully-qualified name of the machine. that's it, that's the function. it's used primarily when you're doing BitKeeper scripting — like, this is the little helper you call from scripts when you need to know what box you're on. no cap. 🫶

• -n — print the internet address instead of the host 🌐
• -r — print the real host name, ignoring $BK_HOST 🙈

like, yes, that's only two flags. sometimes slay is minimal.

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💀 NOTES

okay so here's the tea — on some UNIX systems, it can literally happen that BitKeeper will output an error message complaining that localhost is an invalid hostname. 😭 the vibe check fails. often the fix is to simply add a fully qualified hostname to /etc/hosts. iconic. for example:

::1  localhost6 yourhost.yourdomain.com

ngl, this is the classic "have you tried editing /etc/hosts" moment. do with that what you will. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO

• bk-getuser 👑

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🌸 CATEGORY

Utility — she's utility, your honor. 🧚

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that's the whole page, bestie 💖 — brought to you by BitKeeper Inc, hanging out at version 1E1 in the BitKeeper User's Manual. mwah, go forth and get that host name. 🎀🦋