uname

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:26:12PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> I have a query on uname
> 1)uname -i prints i386
> 2)uname -m prints i686
> whats the difference between this two and why is it printing differently

       -m, --machine
              print the machine hardware name

       -p, --processor
              print the processor type

       -i, --hardware-platform
              print the hardware platform


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