HOSTID(1)

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version 9.10 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

🌸 HOSTID — the manual page, but make it cute 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to hostid, section 1 of the User Commands manual 💖 this is the little cutie that goes "hey, what's MY numeric ID" and the host just... tells you. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

hostid — print the numeric identifier for the current host 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hostid [OPTION]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional thing. iconic.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Print the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) for the current host. that's the serve. hexadecimal, bestie, so it's giving 1a2b3c4d not 123456789. iykyk ✨

and then the two little side quests:

  • --help — display this help and exit 🥺 (she's polite, she tells you how she works, then she dips)
  • --version — output version information and exit 👑

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Written by Jim Meyering. ty king 🫡💜

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug?? not the vibe. tell the girlies:

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • gethostid(3) — the C library bestie, if you wanna do this from inside a program 💻

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/hostid> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) hostid invocation'

⭐ pro tip: reading the local info page is lowkey the main character move here.

🍓 the sign-off, periodt 🍓

Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2) — ty Ubuntu, you ate 🫶

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 🫣 like fr fr, no warranty, don't come for her.

and that's the tea, bestie: this whole glow-up of the HOSTID(1) page — GNU coreutils version 9.10, dated August 2026 — is officially wrapped. go print somebody's numeric identifier. slay 💅✨🎀

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