Wow! Thanks everyone for answers. Its clear for me now.

2013/5/25 Vladimir Budnev <vladimir.bud...@gmail.com>

> Goodday everyone!
>
> While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching
> scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and
> futher processing.
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> But on my desktop it gives "unknown", so script does not work as expected.
> And at the same time:
> steve@dbsteve: /home/coin %
> % uname -a
> Linux dbsteve 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Does it mean one cant rely on uname -i results or my distro (debian
> testing) behaves strange?
>
> PS
> % cat /etc/debian_version
> 7.0
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