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As a test I compiled both version 2. The above versions were downloaded from the kernel. This will show you the words little or big depending on the architecture your system is comprised of:. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Is there a system command, in Linux, that reports the endianness? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 2 months ago. Active 4 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 37k times. Improve this question. What's wrong with the od method? It's simple and works everywhere. It's what I thought of before reading the body of your question. Gilles - nothing really, feels a little like a hack at least to me.

The newer lscpu method is more what I would come to expect. Active 1 month ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Michael Hampton k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Jake Wilson Jake Wilson 8, 26 26 gold badges 90 90 silver badges bronze badges. Here's the solution using perl: stackoverflow. Related: unix. Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. That's an upper-case I eye rather than a lower-case l ell by the way. Care to explain how it works? This doesn't seem to work on Android Nexus 5. Not sure why Community Bot 1. Here is a more elegant python one-line script python -c "import sys;sys.

This won't work on RHEL 5. Here's a fix: python -c "import sys;sys. Tong Zhou Tong Zhou 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. I think you mean of an arbitrary ELF Since there are other executable types including shell scripts, perl, python, etc. Not saying you're wrong otherwise though - just saying that it's worth remembering that there are other executable types and for interest the code is in the text segment hence the old text file busy error.

Pryftan Thanks for pointing that out. Corrected it! TongZhou Welcome; glad to be of help! First method to work for busybox-based embedded OSes. The hexdump version is awesome. It works well on busybox systems. Show 1 more comment.

This Python script should work for you:! Dennis Williamson Dennis Williamson One liner: python -c "from struct import pack;import sys;sys. The exit code is 0 for big endian and 1 for little endian. Have not tested on Windows: from java. My question its beause of zero size files am not able to transfer through script? How to transfer files from unix machine to local machine using shell script?

Hi All.. Am new to Unix!! Am creating a shell script in which a scenario is like i have transfer the output file from unix machine Server to local directory Windows xp. And also i have to transfer the input file from the local directory to Unix machine Server Any help from you I need a shell script to copy files frm a linux machine to a windows machine using SCP.

The files keeps changing day-to-day. I have to copy the latest file to the windows machine frm the linux machine. Solaris 5. I just know that its a Binary File. I have no knowledge about the native datatype of the Binary File. But this command is not Best possible communication mechanism between a Solaris machine and a windows machine. What are possible communication mechanisms by which i can do this.

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