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Name

arch - print machine architecture

Synopsis

arch

Description

arch is deprecated command since release util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m or use arch from the coreutils package.

On current Linux systems, arch prints things such as “i386", “i486", “i586", “alpha", “sparc", “arm", “m68k", “mips", “ppc".

See Also

uname(1) , uname(2)

Availability

The arch command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

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