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41 .Nd display information about the system
48 command writes the name of the operating system implementation to
50 When options are specified, strings representing one or more system
51 characteristics are written to standard output.
53 The options are as follows:
54 .Bl -tag -width indent
56 Behave as though the options
62 Write the kernel ident to standard output.
64 Write the type of the current hardware platform to standard output.
66 Write the name of the system to standard output.
68 Write the type of the machine processor architecture to standard output.
70 Write the current release level of the operating system
73 Write the name of the operating system implementation to standard output.
75 Write the version level of this release of the operating system
81 flag is specified, or multiple flags are specified, all
82 output is written on a single line, separated by spaces.
84 An environment variable composed of the string
86 followed by any flag to the
90 will allow the corresponding data to be set to the contents
91 of the environment variable.
101 command is expected to conform to the
107 command appeared in PWB