Name

arch — print machine architecture

Synopsis

arch

DESCRIPTION

arch is deprecated command since release util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m or use arch from the 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-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.


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