[twincling] shell commands query

hello all, i am new to Linux (Ubuntu) and would like to explore this operating system. i would like to run a shell command or a set of commands to know the system name, number of CPUs, CPU clock frequency, RAM size, number of disks. Can you tell me the commands. Regards

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

Hi Kazi, well i do not know the exact commands for all the above things (or even if they exist), all this information(and a lot more) can be easily extracted from the /proc filesystem,... the required cat commands are : cat /proc/meminfo # for details about RAM cat /proc/scsi/scsi# for

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

I can suggest few commands : uname -a gives the kernel details cat /etc/issue details of the but this varies with distros so cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu details cat /proc/meminfo memory details top also gives details about swap space, ram, and the current utilization per process hope this

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

Hi Kazi! You can find everything in the /proc file system. 1. Use the less /proc/cpuinfo to get all info about the processor(s) in your system. 2. Use the less /proc/meminfo to get info on the memory details. 3. You also can use the free -m to see the memory status in megabytes.

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

Hi Kazi, To get started in Linux / unix shell http://www.shelldorado.com/ Sridhar please refer this site. On 5/11/08, Navneet Sreeraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kazi! You can find everything in the /proc file system. 1. Use the less /proc/cpuinfo to get all info about the

Re: [twincling] shell commands query

i would suggest to use the lshw command, this will give all the info abt all the h/w present on ur computer note : this needs to be run as sudo -srini On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Navneet Sreeraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kazi! You can find everything in the /proc file system.