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RjY
Nov 18, 2009, 5:48:50 PM11/18/09
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Kalyan posted:
>I have a 64-bit athelon processor running on my machine. How do I find
>out if the installed OS is 64-bit or 32-bit Linux?
>I have a 64-bit athelon processor running on my machine. How do I find
>out if the installed OS is 64-bit or 32-bit Linux?
I think what you want is the output of the command "uname -m" which will
be i686 for 32-bit or x86_64 for 64-bit (or possibly amd64, not sure)
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Marc Haber
Nov 24, 2009, 10:43:56 AM11/24/09
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"David W. Hodgins" <dwho...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>if [[ $(uname -m) == "x86_64" ]]; then
> echo "coreutils is 64 bit"
>else
> echo "coreutils is 32 bit"
>fi
>if [[ $(uname -m) == "x86_64" ]]; then
> echo "coreutils is 64 bit"
>else
> echo "coreutils is 32 bit"
>fi
|$ file /bin/uname
|/bin/uname: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped
|$ uname -m
|x86_64
|$
This is a 64 bit kernel with a very 32 bit userland.
Greetings
Marc
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