UNAME(1)

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version 9.12 · 26 versions
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💅 UNAME(1) — User Commands 💅

okay bestie, welcome to uname, the little command that goes "hey, who even am I" and answers about your system. It lives in the GNU coreutils manual (section 1, User Commands, for the record 👑), and it's about to print system information for you. Slay.

✨ NAME ✨

uname — print system information 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

uname [OPTION]...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

It prints certain system information. That's the whole job. Iconic of it, honestly.

If you give it no OPTION at all? It just does the same thing as -s. No thoughts, just kernel name. 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -a, --all — prints all the information, in the following order, except it omits -p and -i if they're unknown. (Yes bestie, "unknown" is a real vibe here, sometimes the system just doesn't know.)
  • -A, --all-labeled — prints all the information too, but one labeled field per line instead of the pile-it-all-together situation. Same deal: omits -p and -i if unknown.
  • -s, --kernel-name — prints the kernel name 🌸
  • -n, --nodename — prints the network node hostname 🖥️
  • -r, --kernel-release — prints the kernel release ⭐
  • -v, --kernel-version — prints the kernel version 🌈
  • -m, --machine — prints the machine hardware name 🧚
  • -p, --processor — prints the processor type. Heads up, it's non-portable, so don't go assuming it behaves everywhere 💀
  • -i, --hardware-platform — prints the hardware platform. Also non-portable, same warning, no cap.
  • -o, --operating-system — prints the operating system 👑
  • --help — displays this help and exits, bye 🫶
  • --version — outputs version information and exits, also bye 💜

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Written by David MacKenzie. Respect the legend. 🙌

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Not me being the messenger but—

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. (fr fr, read that twice.)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/uname> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) uname invocation'

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate 💅✨ This one's from GNU coreutils 9.12, dated September 2026 — mwah, go check your kernel name, it's giving main character energy 🌟🫶

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