Prasanta asked me a week back,
How to identify if a given shell server is running on a 32bit or 64bit hardware?
We pondered over it and thought of all possible options, $ arch, /proc/cpuinfo, etc.. but yesterday i came across this nifty utility $
lshw.. Try it now if you can.. trust me you'll love it.. And for prasanta, this is how i identified it is 32bit computer.
$ lshw
[snip]
fiona.gnuer.org
description: Notebook
product: 2374R79
vendor: IBM
version: ThinkPad T42
serial: L3F4446
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.33 dmi-2.33
[snip]
One may install
lshw-gtk as well for a Mac File explorer like interface for browsing hardware properties.
