linux man page for hostid

HOSTID(1)							   User Commands							 HOSTID(1)

NAME
       hostid - print the numeric identifier for the current host

SYNOPSIS
       hostid [OPTION]

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

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR
       Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report hostid bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report hostid translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.

SEE ALSO
       The  full documentation for hostid is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and hostid programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'hostid invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							 HOSTID(1)