uname -m and uname -p

[Matthew Flaschen]

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> when i do the below command, I get the below information
> 
> $ uname -m
> x86_64
> $ uname -p
> unknown
> $
> 
> whats the difference between the two command and i have referred to man uname
> which says
> 
>        -m, --machine
>               print the machine hardware name
> 
>        -p, --processor
>               print the processor type or "unknown"

-p should be the actual model of processor, but it doesn't seem to work
on my machine either.

Matthew Flaschen

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