| .\" arch.1 -- |
| .\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| .\" Public domain: may be freely distributed. |
| .TH ARCH 1 "4 July 1997" "Linux 2.0" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| arch \- print machine architecture |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B arch |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B arch |
| is deprecated command since release util-linux 2.13. Use |
| .BR "uname -m" |
| or use |
| .BR arch |
| from the coreutils package. |
| |
| On current Linux systems, |
| .B arch |
| prints things such as "i386", "i486", "i586", "alpha", "sparc", |
| "arm", "m68k", "mips", "ppc". |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR uname (1), |
| .BR uname (2) |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| The arch command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from |
| ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |
| .\" |
| .\" Details: |
| .\" arch prints the machine part of the system_utsname struct |
| .\" This struct is defined in version.c, and this field is |
| .\" initialized with UTS_MACHINE, which is defined as $ARCH |
| .\" in the main Makefile. |
| .\" That gives the possibilities |
| .\" alpha arm i386 m68k mips ppc sparc sparc64 |
| .\" |
| .\" If Makefile is not edited, ARCH is guessed by |
| .\" ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/) |
| .\" Then how come we get these i586 values? |
| .\" Well, the routine check_bugs() does system_utsname.machine[1] = '0' + x86; |
| .\" (called in init/main.c, defined in ./include/asm-i386/bugs.h) |
