ARCH(1) Linux Programmer's Manual ARCH(1) NAME arch - print machine architecture SYNOPSIS arch DESCRIPTION arch is equivalent to uname -m. On current Linux systems, arch prints things such as "i386", "i486", "i586", "alpha", "sparc", "arm", "m68k", "mips", "ppc". SEE ALSO uname(1), uname(2) Linux 2.0 4 July 1997 ARCH(1)