UNAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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 or "unknown"
- -i, --hardware-platform
- 
print the hardware platform or "unknown"
- -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
Report uname bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
 
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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)
The full documentation for
uname
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
info
and
uname
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- 
info coreutils aquname invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.