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)
|$ 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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