[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (UNAME)

Bharathi Subramanian sbharathi at MidasComm.Com
Tue May 6 10:30:12 IST 2008


One Day One GNU/Linux Command
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uname - Display system informations

Summary:-

Display system informations like OS Type, Kernel Version, Arch, Host
Name etc., It will collect all this info from the /proc/sys/kernel/
{ostype, hostname, osrelease, version, domainname}.

Examples :-

$ uname  -- Kernel Name

$ uname -n -- Show the machine name

$ uname -rv -- Show kernel's release & Ver info

$ uname -om -- Show OS Type and Arch

$ uname -a  -- Show all info

Read: man uname

HTH :)
-- 
Bharathi S



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