Q. What is the command to find the system configuration on Linux operating system using command line (text) mode?
A. Most of the hardware information can be extracted from /proc file system, for example display CPU and Memory information, enter:
cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/cpuinfo
See the complete list of Linux command to gathers up information about a Linux system
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Very useful commands. Thank you…
Nice commands, very useful.
Thank you.
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Thanks Vivek Gite !
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also i need to find what FTP server is installed on my Remote Web Server via SSH,
can you provide command for that?
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Hi Mr. Gite,
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very useful for me… thanks ya….
hey not useful for me…!
I want some command which will tell me hw much graphics memory do I have and how much graphical memory is being used by a particular application…!
try lshw
thanks ..
Very usefull……..
The command was good enough,but we can even try with the most simple command:’top’
will give the information,of both the cpu and memory information.
Good One
Very userful commands
It is really very good source of information related to system h/w.
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Thanks.. its very useful.. and we can use lshw and top commands….
Information is very helpful. Thank You
was very userful Thank u
Thanks you very much that’s fine command for see all information about hardware:
this is useful information to us
Thank You
I Tried to “vim” the files rather than “cat”ing them. I found that to be a bit more informal, but thats just my opinion. Thank you for the help anyways!