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Sometimes it’s useful to know which components you are using on a GNU/Linux computer or server, you can go with the long way, taking a look at the boot message for all the hardware discovered, use some terminal commands such as lsusb,lspci or lshw or some graphical tools such as hardinfo (my favourite graphical tool) or Inex/CPU-G.
But I’ve discovered on my Linux Mint, that, by default, I’ve now a new option: inxi
inxi it’s a full featured system information script wrote in bash, that easily will show on a terminal all the info of your system.
Inxi comes pre-installed with SolusOS, Crunchbang, Epidemic, Mint, AntiX and Arch Linux but as it is a bash script it works on a lot of other distributions. Although it is intended for use with chat applications like IRC it also works from a shell and provides an abundance of information, It is is a fork of locsmif’s largely unmaintained yet very clever, infobash script. inxi is co-developed, a group project, primarily with trash80 on the programming side.
Inxi works on Konversation, Xchat, irssi, Quassel, as well as on most other IRC clients. Quassel includes (usually an older version of) inxi.
Installation is as easy as downloading and chmoding a file.
If inxi is not present on your distro, then you can install it by following the instructions here
https://code.google.com/p/inxi/wiki/Installation
Ok, interesting but what if you would like some more info ?
Don’t worry the commands it’s full of options, some are:
-A Show Audio/sound card information.
-C Show full CPU output, including per CPU clockspeed.
-D Show full hard Disk info, not only model, ie: /dev/sda ST380817AS 80.0GB. See also -x and -xx.
-F Show Full output for inxi. Includes all Upper Case line letters, plus -s and -n.
Does not show extra verbose options like -x -d -f -u -l -o -p -t -r unless you use that argument.
-G Show Graphic card information (card, x type, resolution, glx renderer, version).
-I Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, irc client, inxi version.
-l Show partition labels. Default: short partition -P. For full -p output, use: -pl (or -plu).
-n Show Advanced Network card information. Same as -Nn. Shows interface, speed, mac id, state, etc.
-N Show Network card information. With -x, shows PCI BusID, Port number.
And this is just a short list of all the options you can get, as alternatively you could use the -v (verbosity) flag:
-v Script verbosity levels. Verbosity level number is required. Should not be used with -b or -F
Supported levels: 0-7 Example: inxi -v 4
0 – Short output, same as: inxi
1 – Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU + -G + basic Disk + -I.
2 – Adds networking card (-N), Machine (-M) data, shows basic hard disk data (names only),
and, if present, basic raid (devices only, and if inactive, notes that). similar to: inxi -b
3 – Adds advanced CPU (-C), network (-n) data, and switches on -x advanced data option.
4 – Adds partition size/filled data (-P) for (if present):/, /home, /var/, /boot
Shows full disk data (-D).
5 – Adds audio card (-A); sensors (-s), partition label (-l) and UUID (-u), short form of optical drives,
standard raid data (-R).
6 – Adds full partition data (-p), unmounted partition data (-o), optical drive data (-d), full raid.
7 – Adds network IP data (-i); triggers -xx.
This is an example of output with -v 7
As you can see this output show a looot more information, you can get a long output also with the option -F (full output).
As last thing, if you are using an Xterm you can choose which color scheme use, and to see which one are available just use the command:
![inxi color]()
Inxi in action:
Sometimes it’s useful to know which components you are using on a GNU/Linux computer or server, you can go with the long way, taking a look at the boot message for all the hardware discovered, use some terminal commands such as lsusb,lspci or lshw or some graphical tools such as hardinfo (my favourite graphical tool) or Inex/CPU-G.
But I’ve discovered on my Linux Mint, that, by default, I’ve now a new option: inxi
inxi it’s a full featured system information script wrote in bash, that easily will show on a terminal all the info of your system.
Inxi comes pre-installed with SolusOS, Crunchbang, Epidemic, Mint, AntiX and Arch Linux but as it is a bash script it works on a lot of other distributions. Although it is intended for use with chat applications like IRC it also works from a shell and provides an abundance of information, It is is a fork of locsmif’s largely unmaintained yet very clever, infobash script. inxi is co-developed, a group project, primarily with trash80 on the programming side.
Inxi works on Konversation, Xchat, irssi, Quassel, as well as on most other IRC clients. Quassel includes (usually an older version of) inxi.
Installation is as easy as downloading and chmoding a file.
Installation
Inxi is present in the default repository of most distros so you can install it (if you are missing it) with these commands:# Ubuntu/Debian users |
https://code.google.com/p/inxi/wiki/Installation
Basic Usage
Just open a terminal (with a normal user) and give the command inxi, this will show up the basic information of your system (in colors !!), something like this:linuxaria@mint-desktop ~ $ inxi |
Don’t worry the commands it’s full of options, some are:
-A Show Audio/sound card information.
-C Show full CPU output, including per CPU clockspeed.
-D Show full hard Disk info, not only model, ie: /dev/sda ST380817AS 80.0GB. See also -x and -xx.
-F Show Full output for inxi. Includes all Upper Case line letters, plus -s and -n.
Does not show extra verbose options like -x -d -f -u -l -o -p -t -r unless you use that argument.
-G Show Graphic card information (card, x type, resolution, glx renderer, version).
-I Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, irc client, inxi version.
-l Show partition labels. Default: short partition -P. For full -p output, use: -pl (or -plu).
-n Show Advanced Network card information. Same as -Nn. Shows interface, speed, mac id, state, etc.
-N Show Network card information. With -x, shows PCI BusID, Port number.
And this is just a short list of all the options you can get, as alternatively you could use the -v (verbosity) flag:
-v Script verbosity levels. Verbosity level number is required. Should not be used with -b or -F
Supported levels: 0-7 Example: inxi -v 4
0 – Short output, same as: inxi
1 – Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU + -G + basic Disk + -I.
2 – Adds networking card (-N), Machine (-M) data, shows basic hard disk data (names only),
and, if present, basic raid (devices only, and if inactive, notes that). similar to: inxi -b
3 – Adds advanced CPU (-C), network (-n) data, and switches on -x advanced data option.
4 – Adds partition size/filled data (-P) for (if present):/, /home, /var/, /boot
Shows full disk data (-D).
5 – Adds audio card (-A); sensors (-s), partition label (-l) and UUID (-u), short form of optical drives,
standard raid data (-R).
6 – Adds full partition data (-p), unmounted partition data (-o), optical drive data (-d), full raid.
7 – Adds network IP data (-i); triggers -xx.
This is an example of output with -v 7
linuxaria@mint-desktop ~ $ inxi -v7-c0 |
As last thing, if you are using an Xterm you can choose which color scheme use, and to see which one are available just use the command:
inxi -c 94, you’ll get an output similar to this one:
Inxi in action: