Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was never hidden and has always been available.
Not sure I understand that comment. Or rather I am sure I do not. > The commands, excepting lshw, have been > available since the 1970s. And lots of system inventory scripts are > in existance. Many written obscurely in Perl and other languages. Thanks for the handy list. I know all those tools of course but assumed someone would have had enough time during those 35 yrs to have assembled a nifty script that I could just edit for my own needs. I've never subscribed to the fool notion that I must do it myself from the ground up, mainly so that I could smugly stroke my grey guru beard. I'd happily save a good bit of time instead. I'm sure many such scripts have been written in the past 35yrs. I hoped a few would have become famous and available by name that I could simply edit. You mentioned possibly obscure system inventory scripts in perl. So apparently you already know it can be a time consuming undertaking to dig one up with google, test it, etc etc. Do you know of one off the top of your head? Hopefully not too obscure. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
