Open a terminal, type
man hostname then press the return key.
The "
Manual page" for the command
hostname is displayed.
Pageup PageDown and
Q to
Quit. It is easy
Or put
man hostname into a search engine if you prefer prettier formatting. Or search LQ for a nice little script called man2pdf which will convert
man pages into pretty PDFs.
OK, I did it for you. Here's the link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...77#post3360877
man man will tell you how to use the
man command.
man is
very useful.