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John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
>> A bug.  It is unreasonable to expect a user to know to do 'info
>> coreutils' to learn about hostid, head, or any of the many other
>> utilities that are fully documented only in the coreutils info files
> 
> This is a known bug.  See #483554.

It's worse than that. konqueror 'info:/coreutils/hostid invocation' does
not give much more information. It just shows an example:

> For example, here's what it prints on one system I use: 
>       $ hostid
>       1bac013d
> 
> 
>  On that system, the 32-bit quantity happens to be closely related to the 
> system's Internet address, but that isn't always the case. 
>  An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value indicates 
> failure.

Johannes
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