How can I get processor/RAM/disk specs from the Linux command Line?

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How to find out details about hardware on the Linux machine?

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score 146 · Answer 1 · edited May 21 '15 at 22:44

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CPU

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

Memory :

$ free
$ cat /proc/meminfo

HDD:

$ df -h
$ sudo fdisk -l
$ hdparm -i /dev/device (for example sda1, hda3...)

edited May 21 '15 at 22:44

Jakov Sosic

answered Feb 13 '10 at 13:17

Jindrich

cat /proc/cpuinfo is brilliant, never knew about this. Thanks – yazz.com Feb 14 '10 at 09:24

score 34 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 13 '10 at 16:31

34

lshw command is also really useful to get a lot of information about all the hardware !

answered Feb 13 '10 at 16:31

sebthebert

score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 28 '19 at 20:58

9

sudo dmidecode command will also give you more hardware info than you ever wanted.

edited Mar 28 '19 at 20:58

Jimatw

answered Feb 13 '10 at 16:03

jbroome

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 13 '10 at 13:19

8

hwinfo would be one way to do it.

answered Feb 13 '10 at 13:19

Helvick

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