Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit?

[Chris Rees]

On 16 March 2010 17:02, Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
>        Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch
> command?
>
>        I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run
> just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out
> the likely boot drive, formats it and then begins to build a
> FreeBSD system on it. The script could intelligently ask for the
> 64-bit or 32-bit trees if it could determine whether it was
> running on the i86 or 64-bit system.

[chris at amnesiac]~% sysctl hw.machine_arch
hw.machine_arch: i386
[chris at amnesiac]~%

> Thank you.

You're welcome.

Chris