Commands tagged system information (1)

  • Quick and dirty hardware summary where lshw is not available. Requires util-linux, procps, pciutils, usbutils and net-tools, which should be preinstalled on most systems.

    alias gethw='(printf "\nCPU\n\n"; lscpu; printf "\nMEMORY\n\n"; free -h; printf "\nDISKS\n\n"; lsblk; printf "\nPCI\n\n"; lspci; printf "\nUSB\n\n"; lsusb; printf "\nNETWORK\n\n"; ifconfig) | less'
    lordtoran · 2021-04-03 00:41:12 30


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