On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:02:12 -0500, Wildman wrote:
> I guess you missed my post mentioning inxi.
I had tried it, but the command wasn't found.
$ sudo apt-get install inxi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gawk hddtemp mesa-utils
Suggested packages:
gawk-doc ksensors
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gawk hddtemp inxi mesa-utils
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INXI(1) inxi
manual INXI(1)
NAME
inxi - Command line system information script for console and IRC
SYNOPSIS
inxi - Single line, short form. Very basic output.
inxi [-AbCdDfFGhHiIlMnNopPrRsSuw] [-c NUMBER] [-v NUMBER]
inxi [-t (c or m or cm or mc NUMBER)] [-x -OPTION(s)] [-xx -OPTION
(s)] [-xxx -OPTION(s)]
inxi [--help] [--recommends] [--version] [-@ NUMBER]
DESCRIPTION
inxi is a command line system information script built for for
console and IRC. It is also used for
forum technical support, as a debugging tool, to quickly
ascertain user system configuration and
hardware. inxi shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop,
Kernel, GCC version(s), Processes,
RAM usage, and a wide variety of other useful information.
inxi output varies between CLI and IRC, with some default filters
and color options applied to IRC
use. Script colors can be turned off if desired with -c 0, or
changed using the -c color options
listed in the OPTIONS section below.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
In order to maintain basic privacy and security, inxi filters out
automatically on IRC things like
your network card mac address, WAN and LAN IP, your /home username
directory in partitions, and a few
other things.
Because inxi is often used on forums for support, you can also
trigger this filtering with the -z
option (-Fz, for example). To override the IRC filter, you can
use the -Z option. This can be useful
to debug network connection issues online in a private chat, for
example.
USING OPTIONS
Options can be combined if they do not conflict. Either group the
letters together or separate them.
Letters with numbers can have no gap or a gap at your discretion
unless using -t.
For example: inxi -AG or inxi -A -G or inxi -c10
STANDARD OPTIONS
-A Show Audio/sound card information.
-b Shows basic output, short form (previously -d). Same as:
inxi -v 2
-c [0-32]
Available color schemes. Scheme number is required.
Supported color schemes: 0-32
-c [94-99]
Color selectors run a color selector option prior to inxi
starting which lets you set the
config file value for the selection.
Color selectors for each type display.
(NOTE: irc and global only show safe color set):
-c 94 - Console, out of X.
-c 95 - Terminal, running in X - like xTerm.
-c 96 - Gui IRC, running in X - like Xchat, Quassel, Konversation
etc.
-c 97 - Console IRC running in X - like irssi in xTerm.
-c 98 - Console IRC not in X.
-c 99 - Global - Overrides/removes all settings.
Setting specific color type removes the global color
selection.
-C Show full CPU output, including per CPU clockspeed if
available.
-d Shows optical drive data. Same as -Dd. With -x, adds
features line to output. -xx adds a few
more features.
-D Show full hard Disk info, not only model, ie: /dev/sda
ST380817AS 80.0GB.
-f Show all cpu flags used, not just the short list. Not shown
with -F to avoid spamming. ARM
cpus: show features items.
-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).
-h This help menu.
--help Same as -h
-H This help menu, plus developer options. Do not use dev
options in normal operation!
-i Show Wan IP address, and shows local interfaces (requires
ifconfig network tool). Same as
-Nni. Not shown with -F for user security reasons, you
shouldn't paste your local/wan IP.
-I Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, irc client
(or shell type if run in shell, not
irc), inxi version.
-l Show partition labels. Default: short partition -P. For
full -p output, use: -pl (or -plu).
-M Show machine data. Motherboard, Bios, and if present,
System Builder (Like Lenovo). Older
systems/kernels without the required /sys data can use
dmidecode instead, run as root. If
using dmidecode, may also show bios revision as well as
version.
-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.
-o Show unmounted partition information (includes UUID and
LABEL if available). Shows file sys‐
tem type if you have file installed, if you are root OR if
you have added to /etc/sudoers
(sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file (sample)
Does not show components (partitions that create the md
raid array) of md-raid arrays.
-p Show full partition information (-P plus all other detected
partitions).
-P Show Partition information (shows what -v 4 would show,
but without extra data). Shows, if
detected: / /boot /home /tmp /usr /var. Use -p to see all
mounted partitions.
-r Show distro repository data. Currently supported repo
types: APT (Debian, Ubuntu + derived
versions)
PACMAN (Arch Linux + derived versions)
PISI (Pardus + derived versions)
YUM. (Fedora, Redhat, maybe Suse + derived versions)
(as distro data is collected more will be added. If
your's is missing please show us how to
get this information and we'll try to add it.)
-R Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, and
components, and extra data with -x /
-xx. md-raid: If device is resyncing, shows resync
progress line as well.
--recommends
Checks inxi application dependencies + recommends, and
directories, then shows what package(s)
you need to install to add support for that feature.
-s Show sensors output (if sensors installed/configured): mobo/
cpu/gpu temp; detected fan speeds.
Gpu temp only for Fglrx/Nvidia drivers. Nvidia shows screen
number for > 1 screens.
-S Show System information: host name, kernel, desktop
environment (if in X), distro. With -xx
show dm - or startx - (only shows if present and running if
out of X), and if in X, with -xxx
show more desktop info, like shell/panel etc.
-t [c or m or cm or mc NUMBER]
Show processes. If followed by numbers 1-20, shows
that number of processes for each type
(default: 5; if in irc, max: 5)
Make sure to have no space between letters and numbers (-t
cm10 - right, -t cm 10 - wrong).
-t c - cpu only. With -x, shows also memory for that process on
same line.
-t m - memory only. With -x, shows also cpu for that process on
same line.
-t cm - cpu+memory. With -x, shows also cpu or memory for that
process on same line.
-u Show partition UUIDs. Default: short partition -P. For full
-p output, use: -pu (or -plu).
-U Note - Maintainer may have disabled this function. If inxi
-h has no listing for U then its
disabled. Auto-update script. Note: if you installed
as root, you must be root to update,
otherwise user is fine. Also installs /updates this Man
Page to: /usr/share/man/man8 This
requires that you be root to write to that directory.
-V inxi version information. Prints information then exits.
--version
same as -V
-v Script verbosity levels. Verbosity level number is
required. Should not be used with -b or -F.
Supported levels: 0-7 Examples : inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4
-v 0 - Short output, same as: inxi
-v 1 - Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU + -G + basic Disk + -I.
-v 2 - Adds networking card (-N), Machine (-M) data, and shows
basic hard disk data (names only).
Same as: inxi -b
-v 3 - Adds advanced CPU (-C); network (-n) data; triggers -x
advanced data option.
-v 4 - Adds partition size/filled data (-P) for (if present):/, /
home, /var/, /boot Shows full disk
data (-D)
-v 5 - Adds audio card (-A); sensors (-s), partition label (-l)
and UUID (-u), short form of opti‐
cal drives.
-v 6 - Adds full partition data (-p), unmounted partition data (-
o), optical drive data (-d); trig‐
gers -xx extra data option.
-v 7 - Adds network IP data (-i); triggers -xxx
-w Adds weather line. Note, this depends on an unreliable api
so it may not always be working in
the future. To get weather for an alternate location, use -
W <location_string>. See also -x,
-xx, -xxx option. Please note, your distribution's
maintainer may chose to disable this fea‐
ture, so if -w or -W don't work, that's why.
-W <location_string>
Get weather/time for an alternate location. Accepts postal/
zip code, city,state pair, or lati‐
tude,longitude. Note: city/country/state names must not
contain spaces. Replace spaces with
'+' sign. No spaces around , (comma). Use only ascii
letters in city/state/country names,
sorry. Examples: -W 95623 OR -W Boston,MA OR -
W45.5234,-122.6762 OR -W new+york,ny OR -W
bodo,norway.
-z Adds security filters for IP addresses, Mac, location (-
w), and user home directory name.
Default on for irc clients.
-Z Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging
networking issues in irc for exam‐
ple.
EXTRA DATA OPTIONS
These options are for long form only, and can be triggered by one
or more -x, like -xx. Alternately,
the -v options trigger them in the following way: -v 3 adds -x; -v
6 adds -xx; -v 7 adds -xxx
These extra data triggers can be useful for getting more in-
depth data on various options. Can be
added to any long form option list, like: -bxx or -Sxxx
There are 3 extra data levels: -x; -xx; and -xxx
The following shows which lines / items get extra information with
each extra data level.
-x -A - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for
each Audio device.
-x -A - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Audio device.
-x -C - bogomips on CPU (if available).
-x -d - Adds items to features line of optical drive; adds rev
version to optical drive.
-x -D - Hdd temp with disk data if you have hddtemp installed, if
you are root OR if you have added
to /etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp (sample)
-x -G - Direct rendering status for Graphics (in X).
-x -G - (for single gpu, nvidia driver) screen number gpu is
running on.
-x -G - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Graphics card.
-x -i - Show IPv6 as well for LAN interface (IF) devices.
-x -I - Show system GCC, default. With -xx, also show other
installed GCC versions.
-x -I - If in shell (not in IRC client, that is), show shell
version number (if available).
-x -N - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for
each Network card;
-x -N - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Network card.
-x -R - md-raid: Shows component raid id. Adds second RAID Info
line: raid level; report on drives
(like 5/5); blocks; chunk size; bitmap (if present). Resync
line, shows blocks synced/total
blocks. - zfs-raid: Shows raid array full size;
available size; portion allocated to RAID
(ie, not available as storage)."
-x -S - Desktop toolkit if available (GNOME/XFCE/KDE only);
Kernel gcc version.
-x -t - Adds memory use output to cpu (-xt c), and cpu use to
memory (-xt m).
-x -w / -W
- Adds wind speed and time zone (-w only), and makes output
go to two lines.
-xx -A - Adds vendor:product ID of each Audio device.
-xx -D - Adds disk serial number.
-xx -G - Adds vendor:product ID of each Graphics card.
-xx -I - Adds other detected installed gcc versions to primary gcc
output (if present).
-xx -I - Adds parent program (or tty) that started shell, if not
IRC client, to shell information.
-xx -M - Adds chassis information, if any data for that is
available. Also shows BIOS rom size if
using dmidecode.
-xx -N - Adds vendor:product ID of each Network card.
-xx -R - md-raid: Adds superblock (if present); algorythm, U data.
Adds system info line (kernel sup‐
port, read ahead, raid events). Adds if present, unused
device line. If device is resyncing,
shows resync progress line as well.
-xx -S - Adds, if run in X, display manager type to Desktop
information, if present. If none, shows
N/A. Supports most known display managers, like xdm, gdm,
kdm, slim, lightdm, or mdm.
-xx -w / -W
- Adds humidity and barometric pressure.
-xx -@ <11-14>
- Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to
ftp.techpatterns.com.
-xxx -S
- Adds, if run in X, shell/panel type info to Desktop
information, if present. If none, shows
nothing. Supports some current desktop extras like gnome-
panel, lxde-panel, and others. Added
mainly for Mint support.
-xxx -w / -W
- Adds location (city state country), weather observation
time, altitude of system. If wind
chill, heat index, or dew point are available, shows that
data as well.
ADVANCED OPTIONS
-! 31 Turns off hostname in System line. Useful, with -z, for
anonymizing your inxi output for post‐
ing on forums or IRC.
-! 32 Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi
config file value (if set):
B_SHOW_HOST='false'.
DEBUGGING OPTIONS
-% Overrides defective or corrupted data.
-@ Triggers debugger output. Requires debugging level 1-14
(8-10 - logging of data). Less than 8
just triggers inxi debugger output on screen.
-@ [1-7]
- On screen debugger output.
-@ 8 - Basic logging. Check /home/yourname/.inxi/inxi*.log
-@ 9 - Full file/sys info logging.
-@ 10 - Color logging.
-@ <11-14>
The following create a tar.gz file of system data, plus
collecting the inxi output to file: To
automatically upload debugger data tar.gz file to
ftp.techpatterns.com: inxi -xx@ <11-14> For
alternate ftp upload locations: Example:
inxi -!
ftp.yourserver.com/incoming -xx@ 14
-@ 11 - With data file of xiin read of /sys
-@ 12 - With xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo,
glxinfo etc.
-@ 13 - With data from dev, disks, partitions, etc., plus xiin
data file.
-@ 14 - Everything, full data collection.
SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS
BitchX, Gaim/Pidgin, ircII, Irssi, Konversation, Kopete, KSirc,
KVIrc, Weechat, and Xchat. Plus any
others that are capable of displaying either built in or external
script output.
RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT
To trigger inxi output in your IRC client, pick the appropriate
method from the list below:
Xchat, irssi (and many other IRC clients)
/exec -o inxi [options]
If you leave off the -o, only you will see the output on
your local IRC client.
Konversation
/cmd inxi [options]
To run inxi in konversation as a native script if your
distribution or inxi package did not do
this for you, create this symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversation/
scripts/inxi
If inxi is somewhere else, change the path /usr/local/bin
to wherever it is located.
Then you can start inxi directly, like this:
/inxi [options]
WeeChat
/shell -o inxi [options]
Before WeeChat can run external scripts like inxi, you
need to install the weechat-plugins
package. This is automatically installed for Debian
users. Next, if you don't already have
it, you need to install shell.py, which is a python script.
In a web browser, Click on the download button at: http://
www.weechat.org/scripts/source/sta‐
ble/shell.py.html/
Make the script executable by
chmod +x shell.py
Move it to your home folder: /.weechat/python/autoload/
then logout, and start WeeChat with
weechat-curses
Top of screen should say what pythons scripts have
loaded, and should include shell. Then to
run inxi, you would enter a command like this:
/shell -o inxi -bx
If you leave off the -o, only you will see the output on
your local weechat. WeeChat users may
also like to check out the weeget.py
INITIALIZATION FILE
inxi will read the following configuration/initialization files in
the following order:
/etc/inxi.conf
$HOME/.inxi/inxi.conf
See wiki pages for more information on how to set these up:
http://code.google.com/p/inxi/wiki/script_configuration_files
BUGS
Please report bugs using the following resources.
You may be asked to run the inxi debugger tool which will upload
a data dump of all system files for
use in debugging inxi. These data dumps are very important since
they provide us with all the real
system data inxi uses to parse out its report.
inxi main website/svn/wiki, file an issue report:
http://code.google.com/p/inxi/issues/list
post on inxi developer forums:
http://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-32.html
You can also visit
irc.oftc.net channel: #smxi to post issues.
HOMEPAGE
http://code.google.com/p/inxi
AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE
inxi is is a fork of locsmif's largely unmaintained yet very
clever, infobash script.
Original infobash author and copyright holder: Copyright (C)
2005-2007 Michiel de Boer a.k.a. loc‐
smif
inxi version: Copyright (C) 2008-13 Scott Rogers & Harald Hope
Further fixes (listed as known): Horst Tritremmel <hjt at
sidux.com>
Steven Barrett (aka: damentz) - usb audio patch; swap percent used
patch. Jarett.Stevens - dmidecode
-M patch for older systems with no /sys
And a special thanks to the nice people at
irc.oftc.net channels
#linux-smokers-club and #smxi, who
all really have to be considered to be co-developers because of
their non-stop enthusiasm and will‐
ingness to provide real time testing and debugging of inxi
development.
Without a wide range of diverse Linux kernel based Free Desktop
systems to test on, we could never
have gotten inxi to be as reliable and solid as it's turning out
to be.
And of course, big thanks locsmif, who figured out a lot of the
core methods, logic, and tricks used
in inxi.
Further thanks to the various inxi package maintainers, distro
support people, forum moderators, and
others, who contribute ideas, suggestions, and patches.
This Man page was originally created by Gordon Spencer (aka aus9)
and is maintained by Harald Hope
(aka h2 or TechAdmin).
inxi
2013-06-19 INXI(1)