ARCH(1)

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🖥️ ARCH(1) — arch: display system machine type ✨

Okay bestie, welcome to ARCH(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. This is the manual page for arch, and it's lowkey iconic for how tiny it is. No cap. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

arch — display system machine type. That's the whole vibe: it tells you the current system architecture type. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

arch [ "-k" ]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

arch displays the current system architecture type. It tends to be equivalent to uname -m — except on SunOS platforms, where you gotta check the NOTES section. 👀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -k — displays the kernel architecture on SunOS platforms. That's it. One option. She's minimal. 💅

🦋 NOTES 🦋

SunOS tends to differentiate between kernel and system architecture, bestie. uname -m will return the kernel architecture. System architecture is the same information except it doesn't include the trailing alpha chars. I.e.:

  • sun4m (kernel) = sun4 (system)
  • sun3x = sun3
  • etc., etc.

So yeah, on SunOS those trailing letters are giving "extra" and the system architecture is the trimmed version. ✂️

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

This Perl version was rewritten for the Perl Power Tools project from the description of the arch program in OpenBSD. Periodt. 📜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Theo Van Dinter (felicity@kluge.net). Iconic. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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