Is it possible to detect 32 bit vs 64 bit in a bash script? [duplicate]

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I am writing a bash script to deal with some installations in an automated way... I have the possibility of getting one such program in 32 or 64 bit binary... is it possible to detect the machine architecture from bash so I can select the correct binary?

This will be for Ubuntu machines.

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Does

uname -a

give you anything you can use? I don't have a 64-bit machine to test on.

Note from Mike Stone: This works, though specifically

uname -m

Will give "x86_64" for 64 bit, and something else for other 32 bit types (in my 32 bit VM, it's "i686").

OTHER TIPS

MACHINE_TYPE=`uname -m`
if [ ${MACHINE_TYPE} == 'x86_64' ]; then
  # 64-bit stuff here
else
  # 32-bit stuff here
fi

getconf LONG_BIT seems to do the trick as well, which makes it even easier to check this since this returns simply the integer instead of some complicated expression.

if [ `getconf LONG_BIT` = "64" ]
then
    echo "I'm 64-bit"
else
    echo "I'm 32-bit"
fi

Be careful, in a chrooted 32-bit env, the uname is still answering like the 64-bit host system.

getconf LONG_BIT works fine.

file /bin/cp or any well-known executable or library should do the trick if you don't have getconf (but you can store programs you can't use, and maybe there are not at this place).

You can use , the follow script (i extract this from officially script of "ioquake3") : for example 

archs=`uname -m`
case "$archs" in
    i?86) archs=i386 ;;
    x86_64) archs="x86_64 i386" ;;
    ppc64) archs="ppc64 ppc" ;;
esac

for arch in $archs; do
    test -x ./ioquake3.$arch || continue
    exec ./ioquake3.$arch "$@"
done

==================================================================================

I'm making a script to detect the "Architecture", this is my simple code (I am using it with wine , for my Windows Games , under Linux , by each game , i use diferrent version of WineHQ, downloaded from "PlayOnLinux" site. 

# First Obtain "kernel" name
KERNEL=$(uname -s)

if      [ $KERNEL = "Darwin" ]; then
        KERNEL=mac
elif        [ $Nucleo = "Linux" ]; then
        KERNEL=linux
elif        [ $Nucleo = "FreeBSD" ]; then
        KERNEL=linux
else
        echo "Unsupported OS"
fi

# Second get the right Arquitecture
ARCH=$(uname -m)

if         [ $ARCH = "i386" ]; then
            PATH="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin:$PATH"
            export WINESERVER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin/wineserver"
            export WINELOADER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin/wine"
            export WINEPREFIX="$PWD/wine/data"
            export WINEDEBUG=-all:$WINEDEBUG
            ARCH="32 Bits"
    elif    [ $ARCH = "i486" ]; then
            PATH="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin:$PATH"
            export WINESERVER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin/wineserver"
            export WINELOADER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin/wine"
            export WINEPREFIX="$PWD/wine/data"
            export WINEDEBUG=-all:$WINEDEBUG
            ARCH="32 Bits"
    elif    [ $ARCH = "i586" ]; then
            PATH="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin:$PATH"
            export WINESERVER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin/wineserver"
            export WINELOADER="$PWD/wine/$Nucleo/x86/bin/wine"
            export WINEPREFIX="$PWD/wine/data"
            export WINEDEBUG=-all:$WINEDEBUG
            ARCH="32 Bits"
    elif    [ $ARCH = "i686" ]; then
            PATH="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin:$PATH"
            export WINESERVER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin/wineserver"
            export WINELOADER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86/bin/wine"
            export WINEPREFIX="$PWD/wine/data"
            export WINEDEBUG=-all:$WINEDEBUG
            ARCH="32 Bits"
         elif [ $ARCH = "x86_64" ]; then
            export WINESERVER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86_64/bin/wineserver"
            export WINELOADER="$PWD/wine/$KERNEL/x86_64/bin/wine"
            export WINEPREFIX="$PWD/wine/data"
            export WINEDEBUG=-all:$WINEDEBUG
            ARCH="64 Bits"
    else
        echo "Unsoportted Architecture"
fi

==================================================================================

Now i use this in my bash scripts , because works better in any distro .

# Get the Kernel Name
Kernel=$(uname -s)
case "$Kernel" in
    Linux)  Kernel="linux"              ;;
    Darwin) Kernel="mac"                ;;
    FreeBSD)    Kernel="freebsd"            ;;
* ) echo "Your Operating System -> ITS NOT SUPPORTED"   ;;
esac

echo
echo "Operating System Kernel : $Kernel"
echo
# Get the machine Architecture
Architecture=$(uname -m)
case "$Architecture" in
    x86)    Architecture="x86"                  ;;
    ia64)   Architecture="ia64"                 ;;
    i?86)   Architecture="x86"                  ;;
    amd64)  Architecture="amd64"                    ;;
    x86_64) Architecture="x86_64"                   ;;
    sparc64)    Architecture="sparc64"                  ;;
* ) echo    "Your Architecture '$Architecture' -> ITS NOT SUPPORTED."   ;;
esac

echo
echo "Operating System Architecture : $Architecture"
echo

slot8(msd):/opt # uname -a
Linux slot8a 2.6.21_mvlcge500-electra #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 18 16:29:33 \
EDT 2008 ppc64 GNU/Linux


Remember, there are other CPU architectures than Intel/AMD...

You could do something like this:

if $(uname -a | grep 'x86_64'); then
  echo "I'm 64-bit"
else
  echo "I'm 32-bit"
fi

Yes, uname -a should do the trick. see: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/64bit.html.

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