uname command in linux

[Linux-Us]

hello sir ,

I am in confusion to understand the different between the linux based commands.There are two commands are two different commands and have different options and the meaning of options are not captured by me.

What would be the difference between those commands and associated options.
uname -i
uname -p
uname -m


Thanks

[Devasis]

The uname commands is used get more information from the library of the system and there are so many associated options are being used to get the information from different sections.

The Uname command would be used as follows -

uname [OPTION]...

There are so many options are tagged with it and if you issue it without any option then it evaluates only the general information about current machine configuration.

[Solomon]

The uname has different options.In those options,some of the mostly used options are as follows which evaluates such information -

uname -m It returns the machine architecture
uname -pit evaluates the processor related architecture.
uname -i It evaluates the actual hardware platform descriptions.

The architecture includes the description of machine,processor and updated hardwares.

[MrChris-]

If you will issue the uname command on the linux terminal then you will get the current configured kernel of the the operating system .

The command without any option treated as the -s option which is the default behavior of the operating system .

#uname -s

The command would evaluate the system kernel inflammation.

[Calvin K]

The uname is used as a function also and evaluate such tyoe of information according to the passed argument from the braces :

uname is not tagged in the ANSII library but is handy for finding system information.It accepts the following -

System type (name).
Host name (Nodename).

And returns the following information accrding to passed argument in the braces-

Software release.
Software date.
Machine type.
Domainname.