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 21.4 `uname': Print system information
 ======================================
 
 `uname' prints information about the machine and operating system it is
 run on.  If no options are given, `uname' acts as if the `-s' option
 were given.  Synopsis:
 
      uname [OPTION]...
 
    If multiple options or `-a' are given, the selected information is
 printed in this order:
 
      KERNEL-NAME NODENAME KERNEL-RELEASE KERNEL-VERSION
      MACHINE PROCESSOR HARDWARE-PLATFORM OPERATING-SYSTEM
 
    The information may contain internal spaces, so such output cannot be
 parsed reliably.  In the following example, RELEASE is
 `2.2.18ss.e820-bda652a #4 SMP Tue Jun 5 11:24:08 PDT 2001':
 
      uname -a
      => Linux dum 2.2.18 #4 SMP Tue Jun 5 11:24:08 PDT 2001 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
 
    The program accepts the following options.  Also see  Common
 options.
 
 `-a'
 `--all'
      Print all of the below information, except omit the processor type
      and the hardware platform name if they are unknown.
 
 `-i'
 `--hardware-platform'
      Print the hardware platform name (sometimes called the hardware
      implementation).  Print `unknown' if the kernel does not make this
      information easily available, as is the case with Linux kernels.
 
 `-m'
 `--machine'
      Print the machine hardware name (sometimes called the hardware
      class or hardware type).
 
 `-n'
 `--nodename'
      Print the network node hostname.
 
 `-p'
 `--processor'
      Print the processor type (sometimes called the instruction set
      architecture or ISA).  Print `unknown' if the kernel does not make
      this information easily available, as is the case with Linux
      kernels.
 
 `-o'
 `--operating-system'
      Print the name of the operating system.
 
 `-r'
 `--kernel-release'
      Print the kernel release.
 
 `-s'
 `--kernel-name'
      conformance::) calls this "the implementation of the operating
      system", because the POSIX specification itself has no notion of
      "kernel".  The kernel name might be the same as the operating
      system name printed by the `-o' or `--operating-system' option,
      but it might differ.  Some operating systems (e.g., FreeBSD,
      HP-UX) have the same name as their underlying kernels; others
      (e.g., GNU/Linux, Solaris) do not.
 
 `-v'
 `--kernel-version'
      Print the kernel version.
 
 
    An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
 indicates failure.
 

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