On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]> wrote: > getconf LONG_BIT will probably return the OS type installed, 64 bit or > 32 bit OS. > But grep lm /proc/cpuinfo, will show the CPU type.
I couldn't make out any information out of that. This can be because, I don't really have any idea about the flags it is showing. > If grep lm /proc/cpuinfo returns output, it means you have a 64bit > CPU. Yes, that's true, as it is not at all showing any output on other 32-bit OS. But, it isn't helping me to know *why*? > This is independent of the OS installed. Gr8. Let's me try that out on my Win 7 box. :-) > It can be further highlighted by grep --color=auto lm /proc/cpuinfo > It will show you lm in red color (default). This anyway is showing red color, and I can see why? As you yourself have written that *default*. -- Thanks, Sagar Belure -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
