detecting if a program is a 64 or 32 bit application

RGummi · 10-03-2007, 02:55 AM

Hello,

is there a commadline tool which can detect if a program is 64 bit or 32 bit? Ok I can use ldd to see which libraries are needed but I want it more direct.

Thanks

b0uncer · 10-03-2007, 03:17 AM

How about 'file'?

Quote:

$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

I haven't got a 64-bit machine to give a corresponding output from it, but try out

RGummi · 10-03-2007, 05:01 AM

Hello,

yes it is the 'file' command!

I have also found it.
It says ELF 32-bit or ELF 64-bit

Thanks