Is there any universal command to check Linux OS distribution name and if its 64bit?

So far i used:

uname -a

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(Redhat Enterprise linux (EL) version 5.x and 64 bit)


and harder to remember linux command:

cat /etc/*release

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there is also "lsb_release -a" command, but it dont works everywhere