uname -m and uname -p

[Benjamin E. Zeller]

On Monday 26 February 2007 14:28, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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.


Doesn't work here either. Tried it on Debian-Box, didn't work, SuSE-Box 
gives "i686"
>
> Matthew Flaschen

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