lshw -short

[James Mcphee]

which bus and slot it sits in.  like if you wanted to know which card or
whatnot to yank.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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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