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Sortix volatile manual

This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

NAME

kernelinfo — print kernel information

SYNOPSIS

kernelinfo [variable ...]

DESCRIPTION

kernelinfo prints the specified kernel information.
Possible values for variable are:
name
The name of the current kernel.
version
The version of the current kernel.
tagline
The tagline (slogan) of the release.
options
The kernel(7) options.
builddate
The date on which the current kernel was built.
buildtime
The time at which the current kernel was built.
firmware
The firmware of the system (e.g. "bios" or "efi")

EXIT STATUS

kernelinfo will exit 0 on success and non-zero otherwise.

SEE ALSO

uname(1), kernelinfo(2), kernel(7)
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