On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 06:06 -0600, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > I have a quick question. > The board and CPU that I'm using in one of my machines was given > to me. I didn't take the time to look up the info on the board or > anything. I was busy, so I just put the board in a pc case, hooked > everything up, and loaded the os on the machine. > I didn't know it at the time, but there's a chance it may be a > 64bit board and cpu. I don't want to pull the machine out of the desk, > and open it up to find out. Is there a command entered by way of the > terminal window that will tell me what kind of cpu I have? I want to say > that it's an AMD sempron 3000+, but I'm not sure. > > Thanks > > Jim > Jim, Here is a short script that identifies the OS as well as a 64 bit machine. The script is not mine, but was posted on this site 6 months or so ago. Greg #!/bin/bash echo -n "Running " RES=`uname -a | grep 64` if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo -n "64-bit " else echo -n "32-bit " fi echo -n "operating system on a " RES=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep " lm "` if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo -n "64-bit " else echo -n "32-bit " fi echo "machine"