How do I tell whether my cygwin installation is 32 or 64 bit?

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user18099 picture user18099 · Mar 27, 2014 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

How do I tell whether my cygwin installation is 32 or 64 bit? I don't remember which setup.exe to download. And I would hate to mess up my cygwin installation.

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DBedrenko picture DBedrenko · Mar 27, 2014

uname -m

And it should say x86_64 in the output if it's 64-bit, or i686 if 32-bit.

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