the "proper" way to identify the bitness of your kernel and CPU

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:

> [sam at machine ~]$ [[ $(grep lm /proc/cpuinfo) ]] && echo x86_64 || echo i686
> x86_64 (this represents the processor architecture)

  and your opinion of

  $ getconf LONG_BIT

i'm guessing that is equally informative, yes?

rday
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