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- This guide is both for beginners and the experienced. The goals are *breadth* (everything important), *specificity* (give concrete examples of the most common case), and *brevity* (avoid things that aren't essential or digressions you can easily look up elsewhere). Every tip is essential in some situation or significantly saves time over alternatives.
- This is written for Linux. Many but not all items apply equally to MacOS (or even Cygwin).
- The focus is on interactive Bash, though many tips apply to other shells and to general Bash scripting.
- It includes both "standard" Unix commands as well as ones that require special package installs -- so long as they are important enough to merit inclusion.
- It includes both "standard" Unix commands as well as ones that require special package installs -- so long as they are important enough to merit inclusion.
Notes:
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- Use `dmesg` whenever something's acting really funny (it could be hardware or driver issues).
## Using `dmidecode` to get hardware info
- Information about system BIOS: `dmidecode -t bios`
- Information about RAM slots and maximum supported RAM: `dmidecode -t memory`
- Information about CPU: `dmidecode -t processor`
Other possible keywords you can use to get info from `dmidecode` are `system`, `baseboard`, `chassis`, `cache`, `connector`, `slot`
## One-liners
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- `lshw`, `lscpu`, `lspci`, `lsusb`, `dmidecode`: hardware information, including CPU, BIOS, RAID, graphics, devices, etc.
- `lscpu`: Display information about the CPU architecture
- `lsusb`: List USB devices
- `fortune`, `ddate`, and `sl`: um, well, it depends on whether you consider steam locomotives and Zippy quotations "useful"
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