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Mac OS X in a Nutshell
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Mac OS X in a Nutshell

by Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek, Chris Stone
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

uname

Synopsis

uname [options]

Prints information about the machine and operating system. Without options, prints the name of the operating system.

Options

-a, --all

Combine all the system information from the other options.

-m, --machine

Print the hardware the system is running on.

-n, --nodename

Print the machine’s hostname.

-r, --release

Print the release number of the kernel.

-s, --sysname

Print the name of the operating system.

-p, --processor

Print the type of processor.

-v

Print build information about the kernel.

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