whether my system is 32 bit o 64 bit?

[Linux Tyro]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

I believe part of the confusion here is due to the fact that man arch
> says that it prints the machine hardware name I believe that this is
> actually telling you about the installed OS *not* about the machine
> hardware itself.  Can someone confirm this?
>

It gives processor architecture, as per

http://www.howtoforge.com/useful_linux_commands

But at

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/arch1.html

it says machine architecture, really a little bit confusion!

One more link:

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uarch.htm

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