How you will identify your Linux system is 32 bit or 64 bit?

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ghilman ahmed · Answer

use a commandon the shell terminal

uname -a

and if the result shows a string having only x86 than it is32 bit and if you find a string x86_64 than it is64 bit OS.

Mohand ourabah BENABBAS · Answer

Try # uname -m

The output is : if i386 or i386 the system is32

else if x86_64 the system is64

AHMED ATEEQ · Answer

uname -a

above command will give you the details.

Linux server.domain.com2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec1701:55:02 UTC2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

as you can x86 means its a32 bit server

Rajesh Pant · Answer

By using "arch" and "uname -m" anyone command we can get bit information