HOSTID(1)

👑 HOSTID 💅

okay so bestie, let me put you onto hostid — it's a real one, from the uutils coreutils manual, section 1 (General Commands Manual).

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✨ NAME ✨

hostid — print the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) for the current host 🖥️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hostid [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so literally what it does: it prints the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) for the current host. That's it. That's the whole vibe. hexadecimal host ID, slay 🎀

No cap, it's giving "one job, and it ate." 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — prints help 🫶 (your little "what do I do" bestie)
• -V, --version — prints version ✨ (so you know which glow-up era you're in)

🦋 VERSION 🦋

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 ⭐

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Display the numeric identifier for the current host in hexadecimal:

hostid

🙈 btw bestie — these examples are provided by the tldr-pages project (https://tldr.sh) under the CC BY 4.0 License. And pls keep in mind that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. not a vibe, just the truth 😭

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source/version deets: HOSTID(1) · dated 2026-09-25 💜

and that's the whole page bestie, go print that host ID and be iconic 👑✨ periodt.