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UNAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2014
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NAME
uname – print system information
SYNOPSIS
uname
[OPTION]…
DESCRIPTION
Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s.
- -a, –all
print all information, in the following order,
except omit -p and -i if unknown:
- -s, –kernel-name
print the kernel name
- -n, –nodename
print the network node hostname
- -r, –kernel-release
print the kernel release
- -v, –kernel-version
print the kernel version
- -m, –machine
print the machine hardware name
- -p, –processor
print the processor type or "unknown"
- -i, –hardware-platform
print the hardware platform or "unknown"
- -o, –operating-system
print the operating system
- –help
display this help and exit
- –version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report uname bugs to [email protected]
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report uname translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
arch(1), uname(2)
The full documentation for
uname
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
uname
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils ‘uname invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- AUTHOR
- REPORTING BUGS
- COPYRIGHT
- SEE ALSO