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37 .Nd display information about the system
44 command writes the name of the operating system implementation to
46 When options are specified, strings representing one or more system
47 characteristics are written to standard output.
49 The options are as follows:
50 .Bl -tag -width indent
52 Behave as though the options
58 Write the kernel ident to standard output.
60 Write the type of the current hardware platform to standard output.
62 Write the name of the system to standard output.
64 Write the type of the machine processor architecture to standard output.
66 Write the current release level of the operating system
69 Write the name of the operating system implementation to standard output.
71 Write the version level of this release of the operating system
74 Generates a default ABI: configuration string for dports / pkgng to
75 the standard output, including odd-to-even version-munging.
77 Generates a default ABI: configuration string for dports / pkgng to
78 the standard output, without version-munging.
83 flag is specified, or multiple flags are specified, all
84 output is written on a single line, separated by spaces.
86 An environment variable composed of the string
88 followed by any flag to the
92 will allow the corresponding data to be set to the contents
93 of the environment variable.
95 A varsym composed of the string
97 followed by any flag to the
101 will allow the corresponding data to be set from the contents
103 Environment variables override varsyms in this case.
114 command is expected to conform to the
120 command appeared in PWB