Manual page for uname(1)
uname - print name of current system
SYNOPSIS
uname
[
-aimnprsv
]
uname
[
-S
system_name ]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWcsu
DESCRIPTION
The uname
utility
prints information about the current system
on the standard output.
When options are specified, symbols
representing one or more system characteristics will be
written to the standard output.
If no options are specified,
uname
prints the current operating system's name.
The options print selected information returned by
uname.2
sysinfo.2
or both.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
- -a
-
Print all information.
- -i
-
Print the name of the hardware implementation (platform).
- -m
-
Print the machine hardware name (class).
- -n
-
Print the nodename (the nodename is the name by which the system is known
to a communications network).
- -p
-
Print the current host's processor type.
- -r
-
Print the operating system release.
- -s
-
Print the name of the operating system.
This is the default.
- -v
-
Print the operating system version.
- -S system_name
-
The nodename may be changed by specifying a system name argument.
The system name argument is restricted to
SYS_NMLN
characters.
SYS_NMLN
is an implementation specific value defined in
<sys/utsname.h>.
Only the super-user is allowed this capability.
EXAMPLES
The following command:
-
example% uname -sr
writes the operating system name and release level, separated by one
SPACE
character.
ENVIRONMENT
See
environ.5
for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the
execution of
uname:
LC_CTYPE,
LC_MESSAGES,
and
NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
- 0
-
The requested information was successfully written.
- >0
-
An error occurred.
SEE ALSO
sysinfo.2
uname.2
environ.5
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
