uname -c: alias for uname -rms

Eitan Adler eitanadlerlist at gmail.com
Sun Nov 9 18:38:25 PST 2008


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Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Are there any precedents for this option?
Not really - its more like the recent cp -a switch: an alias for a
common set of switches.

>
> If not, then I don't see the point.  If you have to tell someone to send
> you the output of uname, you may as well tell them to use uname -rms.
> (I prefer uname -v personally.)
Some people don't like giving out hostnames or kernel names for some
strange reason that I can't figure out
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Eitan Adler
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