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.  

SEE ALSO

arch(1), uname(2)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/uname>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) uname invocationaq

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