Querying Linux for Hardware Info

David daz at damnetwork.net
Tue Oct 24 14:39:08 MST 2006


On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, vodhner at cox.net wrote:

> KDE answers the questions below, if I select "System Tools" > "Info Center";  but I need to be querying a series of boxes (some of them with older Linux distributions) with only command line access.  So how do I ask Linux the following questions on the command line?
>
> 1. What kind of CPU?

cat /proc/cpuinfo

>
> 2. How much total RAM on the box?
>

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David
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