[ILUG] Finding the system spec in Linux

[Niall Walsh]

On Friday 22 July 2005 11:43, James McCarthy wrote:
> Whats the command for finding the processor speed & RAM size?

A slightly interesting alternative to the raw access to proc info that has 
been suggested is "infobash" from http://rebelhomicide.demon.nl/scripts/.   
It's a shell script (comes installed on Kanotix and now on Knoppix also I 
believe) which produces output like:

CPU[Mobile Intel Pentium 4 - M clocked at 1196.519 Mhz]  Kernel[Linux 
2.6.11-kanotix-11 i686]  Up[-9days-]  Mem[-749.008/756.668MB-]  
HDD[-40GB(82%used)-]  Procs[-89-]  Client[Shell]

or with "infobash -v" or "infobash -v2" you can get even more:

Host/Kernel/OS "Kanotix" running Linux 2.6.11-kanotix-11 i686 [ KANOTIX 
2005-03 ]
CPU Info       Mobile Intel Pentium 4 - M clocked at [1196.519 Mhz]  2369.12 
Bogomips
Videocard      ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] 
(rev 01)  XFree86 4.3.0.1  [ 1600x1200 @60hz ]
Network cards  3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78), at port: 
ec80
               Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
Processes 89 | Uptime 9days | Memory 748.43/756.668MB | HDD IC25N040ATCS05-0 
Size 40GB (82%used) | Infobash v2.00b15

With the final beauty that it works well with irc clients (so you can do e.g. 
"/exec -o infobash" to put the output to an irc channel).

Now I'm not sure how well this script works across all distros, but I do know 
that it's author is always happy to hear about new ways people have found to 
"break" it.

Perhaps this is of use to someone.

Niall