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Find out if a mac is PPC/Intel in bash (See related posts)

// This checks the processor type in bash

if [[ `sysctl hw.machine` = "hw.machine: Power Macintosh" ]]; then 
        PROCESSOR='PowerPC'
else
        PROCESSOR='Intel'
fi
to shell osx bash intel ppc by benjackson on Sat Nov 18 20:32:12 +0000 2006

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nriley posts on Nov 19, 2006 at 05:20
Even simpler, there's `arch`, which returns 'ppc' or 'i386'.

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