detecting 32 or 64-bit hardware / Kernel

[jim at rossberry.com (Jim Wildman)]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, sudo Yang wrote:

> What's the easiest way to detect whether a system is running 32 or 64 bit?

uname -a 

also
cat /proc/cpuinfo

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