What All Command Used To Find Architecture Of Linux OS and CPU
Assume that administrator is in need to alter the existing system config or simple he wants to install a new software or hardware device , before performing his needfull task he has to know the details of the system to make ensure that the new software /hardware will work fine with the system environment. To get the information about operating system like kernel version, kernel release info, processor type info , you can use getconfLONG_BIT, uname-a, arch, ld-V commands. Below examples give more details about the command.
Example: 1
getconfLONG_BIT command can be used to know wheather the kernel is of 32 bit or 64 bit.
[root@localhost ~]# getconf LONG_BIT
32
Example: 2
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 14:15:21 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
uname -a will tell you if the Linux kernel is 64 bit or 32 bit. If the output includes x86_64 then the kernel is 64 bit, which means the CPU must be 64 bit.
If there is no X86_64, there should be something like 686 or 486 there to say what 32 bit CPU the kernel was built for. If the kernel is 32 bit, the CPU might still be 64 bit.
To confirm about the CPU architecture , you can try the below command.
#grep flags /proc/cpuinfo
That should print a long list of cpu flags. If one of those is lm then the CPU is 64 bit.
Example: 3
Id –v or id – - version commands will display the version information of operating system.
[root@localhost ~]# ld -v
Example: 4
arch command will display the system architecture .
[root@localhost ~]# arch
i686
Example: 7
Below file command can also used to find the kernel architecture. This is bit tricky way.
[root@localhost bin]# file bc
bc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, strippedor
[root@localhost bin]#file /bin/
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