uname - print system information
Submitted by ravisagar on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 03:28.
If you want the know your system information like the Kernel name, Kernel Release, Kernel Version etc then you can issue uname command.
Here is the details of the command along with the arguments. This information is fetched from manual pages.
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
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