UNAME(1) BSD General Commands Manual UNAME(1)NAME
uname — display information about the system
SYNOPSIS
uname [-aimnoprsv]
DESCRIPTION
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 Behave as though the options -m, -n, -r, -s, and -v were speci‐
fied.
-i Write the kernel ident to standard output.
-m Write the type of the current hardware platform to standard out‐
put.
-n Write the name of the system to standard output.
-o This is a synonym for the -s option, for compatibility with other
systems.
-p Write the type of the machine processor architecture to standard
output.
-r Write the current release level of the operating system to stan‐
dard output.
-s Write the name of the operating system implementation to standard
output.
-v Write the version level of this release of the operating system
to standard output.
If the -a flag is specified, or multiple flags are specified, all output
is written on a single line, separated by spaces.
ENVIRONMENT
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.
EXIT STATUS
The uname utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSOsysctl(3), uname(3), sysctl(8)STANDARDS
The uname command is expected to conform to the IEEE Std 1003.2
(“POSIX.2”) specification.
HISTORY
The uname command appeared in PWB UNIX.
BSD January 26, 2010 BSD