On 05/06/2011 02:49 PM, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 18:24, Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Not quite what you intended, but how about:
>>        file $(which uname)
>>
> I often do exactly this with '/bin/ls' to test the OS bitness.
>
> Another alternative is to use gcc -dumpmachine ... which is available on all
> systems that matter :-)
What am I missing?, "uname -m" is what I use to check what kernel
version that's installed, "x86_64" for 64bit and "i.86" for 32bit.
Checking files is ok but it can be misleading since you may have 32bit
files (like /usr/bin/flashplayer or /usr/sbin/grub) on 64bit system.

Or do you wonder whatever it's a 64bit capable CPU, then you need to
check for the "lm" flag
grep "^flags.* lm " /proc/cpuinfo

> -Bart
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