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UNAME

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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 (non-portable)
-i, --hardware-platform: print the hardware platform (non-portable)
-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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report uname translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 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.