uname
— display information about the system
The uname
command writes the name of the operating system implementation to standard output. When options are specified, strings representing one or more system characteristics are written to standard output.
The options are as follows:
-a
-m
, -n
, -r
, -s
, and -v
were specified.
-m
-n
-o
-s
option, for compatibility with other systems.
-p
-r
-s
-v
If the -a
flag is specified, or multiple flags are specified, all output is written on a single line, separated by spaces.
An environment variable composed of the string UNAME_
followed by any flag to the uname
utility (except for -a
) will allow the corresponding data to be set to the contents of the environment variable.
The -m
, -n
, -r
, -s
, and -v
variables additionally have long aliases that have historically been honored on MacOS, “UNAME_MACHINE”, “UNAME_NODENAME”, “UNAME_RELEASE”, “UNAME_SYSNAME”, and “UNAME_VERSION” respectively. These names have a higher priority than their shorter counterparts described in the previous paragraph.
See uname(3) for more information.
EXIT STATUSThe uname
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
The hardware platform (-m
) can be different from the machine's processor architecture (-p
), e.g., on 64-bit PowerPC, -m
would return powerpc and -p
would return powerpc64.
hostname(1), machine(1), sw_vers(1), sysctl(3), uname(3), sysctl(8)
STANDARDSThe uname
command is expected to conform to the IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”) specification.
The uname
command appeared in PWB UNIX 1.0, however 4.4BSD was the first Berkeley release with the uname
command.
The -K
and -U
extension flags appeared in FreeBSD 10.0. The -b
extension flag appeared in FreeBSD 13.0.
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