arch - Man Page

print machine hardware name (same as uname -m)

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

arch [OPTION]...

Description

Print machine architecture.

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Author

Written by David MacKenzie and Karel Zak.

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See Also

uname(1), uname(2)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/arch>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) arch invocation'

Info

September 2026 GNU coreutils 9.12