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Google a lil' bit and found this thread (http://serverfault.com/questions/163487/linux-how-to-tell-if-system-is-big-).
Modified the suggestion a little bit:

echo I | tr -d [:space:] | od -to2 |...

If you have perl: perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{byteorder}\n";'

Unfortunately I don't have a big-endian machine to test it with anymore, one of the last holdouts got replaced by a more modern...