Linux shell uname -a All In One

Linux shell `uname -a` All In One

Linux shell command

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uname#:~:text=uname

$ uname
# Darwin

$ uname -a
# Darwin xgqfrms-mbp.local 19.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.5.0: Tue May 26 20:41:44 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.121.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

man uname

$ man uname

UNAME(1)                  BSD General Commands Manual                 UNAME(1)

NAME
     uname -- Print operating system name

SYNOPSIS
     uname [-amnprsv]

DESCRIPTION
     The uname utility writes symbols representing one or more system charac-
     teristics to the standard output.

     The following options are available:

     -a      Behave as though all of the options -mnrsv were specified.

     -m      print the machine hardware name.

     -n      print the nodename (the nodename may be a name that the system is
             known by to a communications network).

     -p      print the machine processor architecture name.
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# man help
$ man uname

UNAME(1)                                                                   General Commands Manual                                                                  UNAME(1)

NAME
     uname – display information about the system

SYNOPSIS
     uname [-amnoprsv]

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 specified.

     -m      Write the type of the current hardware platform to standard output.  (make(1) uses it to set the MACHINE variable.)

     -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.  (make(1) uses it to set the MACHINE_ARCH variable.)

     -r      Write the current release level of the operating system to standard 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.

     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 STATUS
     The uname utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES
     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.

SEE ALSO
     hostname(1), machine(1), sw_vers(1), sysctl(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 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.

macOS 13.1                                                                    November 13, 2020                                                                   macOS 13.1