On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:23:45AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 1. From current console, how can I determine which is running? > > [ equivalent of /etc/debian_version would be ideal ] > > Depends what you mean. The answer may also be "both" depending on what > you care about. E.g. many of my machines run an amd64 kernel with an > i386 set of Debian binaries running on top of it, and some of them also > include a few Debian amd64 binaries. > > `uname -a` tells you what kernel you're running. > `file /bin/sh` should tell you what that executable uses.
/bin/sh is a symlink, so that's not a useful command to determine your arch. I typically use "file /bin/ls" instead.