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arch(1)				 User Commands			       arch(1)

NAME
       arch - display the architecture of the current host

SYNOPSIS
       arch [-k | archname]

DESCRIPTION
       The  arch  utility displays the application architecture of the current
       host system. Due to extensive historical use of	this  command  without
       any  options,  all  SunOS 5.x SPARC based systems will return "sun4" as
       their application architecture. Use of this command is discouraged. See
       NOTES section below.

       Systems	can be broadly classified by their architectures, which define
       what executables will run on which machines. A distinction can be  made
       between kernel architecture and application architecture (or, commonly,
       just "architecture"). Machines that run different kernels due to under‐
       lying hardware differences may be able to run the same application pro‐
       grams.

OPTIONS
       -k	Displays the kernel architecture, such as sun4u.  This defines
		which  specific	 SunOS kernel will run on the machine, and has
		implications only for  programs	 that  depend  on  the	kernel
		explicitly (for example, ps(1)).

OPERANDS
       The following operand is supported:

       archname	       Use archname to determine whether the application bina‐
		       ries for this application architecture can run  on  the
		       current	host  system.  The   archname  must be a valid
		       application architecture, such as  sun4, i86pc, and  so
		       forth.

		       If  application	binaries  for  archname can run on the
		       current host system, TRUE (0) is	 returned.  Otherwise,
		       FALSE (1) is returned.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       >0	An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │SUNWcsu			   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       mach(1), ps(1), uname(1), attributes(5)

NOTES
       This  command  is provided for compatibility with previous releases and
       its use is discouraged. Instead, the uname command is recommended.  See
       uname(1) for usage information.

SunOS 5.10			  21 Oct 2002			       arch(1)
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