uname

Options

--all, -a

uname-help-all

--kernel-name, -s

uname-help-kernel-name

--nodename, -n

uname-help-nodename

--kernel-release, -r

uname-help-kernel-release

--kernel-version, -v

uname-help-kernel-version

--machine, -m

uname-help-machine

--operating-system, -o

uname-help-os

--processor, -p

uname-help-processor

--hardware-platform, -i

uname-help-hardware-platform

Examples

Print kernel name:

uname

Print all available system information:

uname {{[-a|--all]}}

Print system architecture and processor information:

uname {{[-mp|--machine --processsor]}}

Print kernel name, kernel release and kernel version:

uname {{[-srv|--kernel-name --kernel-release --kernel-version]}}

Print system hostname:

uname {{[-n|--nodename]}}

Print the current operating system name:

uname {{[-o|--operating-system]}}

Print the current network node host name:

uname {{[-n|--nodename]}}

Display help:

uname --help

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.