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Inxi is a system information script written in bash, supporting many options.

The cost

• Dependencies: gawk hddtemp libsensors4 libsigsegv2 lm-sensors mesa-utils
• Total installed size: 3351kB

The benefit

• Support

  • IRC: Asking someone in #xubuntu to run inxi -Gxxx -c0 | pastebinit in order to get the

    • graphics card, what driver it's using, what version, and some additional information would be very useful. Some other common options are as follows.

    • -r for repositories

    • -n / -N for network information

    • -S for general system information.

    • -s for sensor information.

    • -p / -P for partition data.

    • -M for Machine data (vendor, product, bios, etc.)

    • -f for CPU flags.

    • -F for full output.

    • ..and others. To get more detailed information, you use the -x or -xx options, and -c [number] to change output colors, 0 for no color.

  • Forums: This could also be quite useful on the forums, you likely wouldn't need to dump the information in a pastebin.
• Easy tool to get various information about your system.