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~(-:

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