[YLUG] How can you find out if an install is 32 or 64 bit?

[Steve Kemp]

On Fri May 20, 2011 at 15:46:14 +0100, ALEX ARMANI wrote:

>    How can you find out if an install is 32 or 64 bit?

  Simplest way is to look at the kernel version, but failing that this
 is pretty simple:

    file /bin/ls

  On my amd64/64-bit machine I see this:

  skx at birthday:~$ file /bin/ls
  /bin/ls: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),...

  On my i368 host I see this:

  steve at steve:~$ file /bin/ls
  /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),


Steve
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