JN,

$ file /bin/ls
/bin/ls: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped

Not sure about the windows part.

PB

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Prof. John C Nash <[email protected]> wrote:
> With a colleague I've been building some statistical tools for Lin and Win. 
> We want 64
> bit. Does anyone know of a quick check to see if a binary is 64 bit. I think 
> there should
> be something like
>
>     checkbin myfile
>
> that will return the type e.g., ELF 32, ELF 64 etc.
>
> Of course, we'd like to find Win equivalent too. But for starters a Linux 
> tool would be
> helpful.
>
> I've found it difficult to come up with search terms that don't find all 
> sorts of
> extraneous material and nothing of interest.
>
> Cheers, JN
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