Hostid

hostid shows the numeric ID of the current host.

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Not all distributions provide this command, but most (all?) of the ones that do incorporate this from the GNU Coreutils: and use its man page

Related Commands

All of these relate to system-wide information.

• date - set or show the time.
• arch - show CPU hardware details.
• nproc - Show the number of cores.
• uname - Show host and kernel information.
• hostname - Set or show the host's name.
• uptime - Show system uptime and recent load averages.

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