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diff --git a/sys-utils/arch.1 b/sys-utils/arch.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..96cbc0a --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-utils/arch.1 @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +.\" arch.1 -- +.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Public domain: may be freely distributed. +.TH ARCH 1 "July 1997" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +arch \- print machine architecture +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B arch +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B arch +is a deprecated command since util-linux 2.13. Use +.B "uname -m" +or use +.B arch +from the GNU coreutils package. + +On current Linux systems, +.B arch +prints things such as "i386", "i486", "i586", "alpha", "sparc", +"arm", "m68k", "mips", "ppc". +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR uname (1), +.BR uname (2) +.SH AVAILABILITY +The arch command is part of the util-linux package and is available from +ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. +.\" +.\" Details: +.\" arch prints the machine part of the system_utsname struct +.\" This struct is defined in version.c, and this field is +.\" initialized with UTS_MACHINE, which is defined as $ARCH +.\" in the main Makefile. +.\" That gives the possibilities +.\" alpha arm i386 m68k mips ppc sparc sparc64 +.\" +.\" If Makefile is not edited, ARCH is guessed by +.\" ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/) +.\" Then how come we get these i586 values? +.\" Well, the routine check_bugs() does system_utsname.machine[1] = '0' + x86; +.\" (called in init/main.c, defined in ./include/asm-i386/bugs.h) |