arch - display system machine type
arch [ -k
]
arch displays the current system architecture type. It tends to be
equivilent to uname -m
(except on SunOS platforms, see NOTES).
-k
Displays kernel architecture on SunOS platforms.
SunOS tends to differentiate between kernel and system architecture. uname
-m will return kernel architecture. System architecture is the same
information except it doesn't include the trailing alpha chars. I.e.:
'sun4m' (kernel) = 'sun4' (system), 'sun3x' = 'sun3', etc, etc.
Perl version rewritten for the Perl Power Tools project from the
description of the arch program in OpenBSD.
Theo Van Dinter (felicity@kluge.net)
uname
uname
machine