On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Chris Jones wrote: > > > How about uname? `uname -a` gives all of it. See `man uname` for subsets > > and the ordering of the "-a" output. If you need more than just x86, I > > think any solution will be a bit involved. > > AFAIK, uname only tells you what you are running, not what you > *could* run. I.e. you couldn't tell the diffrence between a 32 bit > os on a 64 bit capable machine or a 32 bit only machine. i was just about to say something like that. on my athlon 64 system, uname -a does include the string "athlon" in the output, but i don't want to have to carefully parse the output looking for model names and matching those names with word sizes. so far, the "lm" string in /proc/cpuinfo looks like the best solution, unless someone has a better idea. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
