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Update hostname on an AWS instance
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update_hostname.sh
# Fix an EC2 instance's hostname.
echo "ip-$(echo $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4 | tr '.' '-'))" | sudo tee /etc/hostname | sudo xargs hostname
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