On Friday 06 May 2011 14:53:32 Rick wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Bart Trojanowski <bart [ at ] jukie [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 18:24, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] net> wrote: > >> Not quite what you intended, but how about: > >> file $(which uname) > > > > I often do exactly this with '/bin/ls' to test the OS bitness. > > > > Another alternative is to use gcc -dumpmachine ... which is available on > > all systems that matter :-) > > Yeah, what's with Ubuntu, installing without apache, a compiler or man > pages. > Don't forget the bogus vi -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600