Quick system hardware overview

curl http://flip-edesign.com/scripts/system_info | bash
This is a simple BASH script which with gather basic system hardware such as CPU sockets and cores, Memory modules and sizes as well as overall memory and more. Root access may be needed to pull information from 'dmidecode'
Sample Output 
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|   OS Type / Version   |
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Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1

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|       OS Arch         |
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i686

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|       Memory          |
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3292MB

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|    Memory Modules     |
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Memory Device
	Size: 1024 MB
Memory Device
	Size: 1024 MB
Memory Device
	Size: 1024 MB
Memory Device
	Size: 1024 MB

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|   Process Sockets     |
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Processor Information
	Socket Designation: Socket M2

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| Process Type / Cores  |
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processor	: 0
model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor
processor	: 1
model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor
processor	: 2
model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor
processor	: 3
model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor

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|     Mounted FS        |
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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              12G  4.6G  6.4G  42% /
udev                   10M  140K  9.9M   2% /dev
shm                   1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /dev/shm

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By: flip387
2009-08-29 20:18:02
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better download the script and inspect it. If he would just change the script on the site, it could be changed to something malicious.
peshay · 764 weeks and 4 days ago
You are very right peshay (even though I dont intend to do anything malicious), user can download the script from http://flip-edesign.com/scripts/system_info directly and run it locally this way there is not worries about anything changing.
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