How to know your machine is 32 or 64 bit?

Here is an easy way to find this, in command line type

$ getconf LONG_BIT

Synopsis:

getconf [-v specification] system_var

the getconf utility shall write to the standard output the value of the variable specified by the system_var operand.

So it prints the value of ‘LONG_BIT’.

Read linux manual for getconf: http://linux.die.net/man/1/getconf

 

Author: Abhilash

Hey! This is Abhilash - A Ruby developer for years, specialised on web development, working as a freelance Ruby Developer. I have experience in other frameworks such as Angular, Sinatra, Laravel etc. Mainly working on Ruby On Rails platform since 2010. This blog is about Ruby, Ruby On Rails and other subjects where I have had a chance to work on. You can contact me here: abhilash.amballur@gmail.com Abhilash AK

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