I found the answer!

there is a phrase in the lshw manpage that says -short is "very  much  like
the output of HP-UX's ioscan.'

A websearch for 'HP-UX's ioscan' brings up it's man page which states:


*hw path* A numerical string of hardware components, notated
sequentially from the bus address to the device
address. Typically, the initial number is
appended by slash (*/*), to represent a bus
converter (if required by your machine), and
subsequent numbers are separated by periods (*.*).
Each number represents the location of a hardware
component on the path to the device.

Could someone explain to me what 'the location of a hardware component'
means?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering, I can run lshw with the -short option and it gives me a
> list:
>
> H/W path  Device  Class          Description
> ============================================
>                   system         Computer
> /0                bus            Motherboard
> /0/1              memory         3888MiB System memory
> /0/6              processor      AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
> /0/0              memory         RAM memory
> etc...
>
> does anyone know what a 'H/W path' is?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>