Name

arch — print machine architecture

Synopsis

arch

DESCRIPTION

arch is a deprecated command since util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m or use arch from the GNU coreutils package.

On current Linux systems, arch prints things such as "i386", "i486", "i586", "alpha", "sparc", "arm", "m68k", "mips", "ppc".

SEE ALSO

uname(1), uname(2)

AVAILABILITY

The arch command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.


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Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faithcs.unc.edu)
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