uname
uname (short for unix name) is a software program in Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that prints the name, version and other details about the current machine and the operating system running on it. The uname system call and command appeared for the first time in PWB/UNIX.
Some Unix variants, such as AT&T UNIX System V Release 3.0 include the related setname program, used to change the values that uname reports.
The GNU version of uname is included in the "sh-utils" or "coreutils" packages. uname itself is not available as a standalone program.
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[edit] Examples
On a system running Darwin, the output from running uname with the -a command line argument might look like the text below:
Darwin Roadrunner.local 10.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 11:58:09 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
The following table contains examples from various versions of uname on various platforms.[1]
| Operating system | OS or kernel name (-s) | OS name (-o) | Machine (-m) | Processor (-p) | Hardware platform (-i or -M) | OS or kernel version (-v) | OS or kernel release (-r) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cygwin (Windows XP), Pentium 4 | CYGWIN_NT-5.1 | Cygwin | i686 | unknown | unknown | 2006-01-20 13:28 | 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) |
| FreeBSD 6.1, Intel | FreeBSD | illegal option | i386 | i386 | [filename of kernel conf file] | FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p15 #1: Sun Apr 15 18:04:51 EDT 2007 | 6.1-RELEASE-p15 |
| FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1, Intel | FreeBSD | FreeBSD | amd64 | amd64 | [filename of kernel conf file] | FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #90 r225136: Wed Aug 24 12:12:18 CEST 2011 | 9.0-BETA1 |
| IRIX 6.5.30, Origin 2000 | IRIX64 | illegal option | IP30 | mips | illegal option | 07202013 | 6.5 |
| Solaris 9, Sun Fire 280R | SunOS | illegal option | sun4u | sparc | SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R | Generic_112233-08 | 5.9 |
| Solaris 10, Sun Fire V490 | SunOS | Solaris | sun4u | sparc | SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490 | Generic_142900-13 | 5.10 |
| openSUSE 10.3, Core2-duo 64-bit | Linux | GNU/Linux | x86_64 | x86_64 | x86_64 | #1 SMP 2007/09/21 22:29:00 UTC | 2.6.22.5-31-default |
| Gentoo, UltraSparc IIe | Linux | GNU/Linux | sparc64 | sun4u | TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) | #1 SMP Wed Nov 10 02:04:26 CET 2010 | 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 |
| any, coreutils 7.1 | Linux | GNU/Linux | sparc64 | sparc64 | UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) | (all) | (all) |
| any, coreutils 7.1–8.4 | Linux | GNU/Linux | ppc64 | ppc64 | PPC 970FX (XServe G5) | (all) | (all) |
| Linux Mint 10 "Julia" 64-bit | Linux | GNU/Linux | x86_64 | unknown | unknown | #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:32:27 UTC 2010 | 2.6.35-22-generic |
| Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0, AMD | GNU/kFreeBSD | GNU/kFreeBSD | x86_64 | amd64 | AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ | #0 Thu Nov 26 04:22:59 CET 2009 | 8.0-1-amd64 |
| Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, Macbook (Late 2007) | Darwin | illegal option | i386 | i386 | illegal option | Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 | 10.0.0 |
| Haiku R1/Alpha 1, QEMU | Haiku | Haiku | BePC | unknown | unknown | r33109 Sep 12 2009 17:45:45 | 1 |
| IBM AIX 5.3 | AIX | AIX | 00C57D4D4C00 | powerpc | IBM,8205-E6B | 5 | 3 |
| MINIX 3.1.7, x86 | Minix | illegal option | i686 | i386 | illegal option | 1.7 | 3 |
| DragonFlyBSD 2.7, AMD64 | DragonFly | illegal option | x86_64 | x86_64 | [filename of kernel conf file] | DragonFly v2.7.3.122.g0ba92-DEVELOPMENT #0: Tue June 8 16:50:35 CEST 2010 | 2.7-DEVELOPMENT root@Chance.: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC |
| Ubuntu 11.04 | Linux | GNU/Linux | x86_64 | x86_64 | x86_64 | #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:07:17 UTC 2011 | 2.6.38-10-generic |
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ These are merely meant to broadly represent common systems; actual output may vary depending on hardware type, OS version, and which software patches have been installed.
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