Get lovely system information with btop on Linux.
Get lovely system information on Lnux with a very nice utility.
Get lovely system information on Lnux with a very nice utility.
How to list information from a YouTube video in the terminal on Linux.
A simple C program to print RAM and Swap usage information on Linux.
How to get comprehensive IP address information with the command line on Linux.
How to get CPU information about core usage and processes on Linux.
How to get information about your connected monitors on Linux. This is very easy.
How to easily parse Apache server logs and get useful information.
How to get useful information about the boot time of your Linux system.
Linux offers many ways to get information about your current hardware. Such as mouse and keyboard model and type. Here is an example, getting information about the keyboard layout installed on my system. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ setxkbmap -query | awk ‘/layout/ && a ~ /model/ {print a"\n"$0} {a = $0}’ model: pc105 layout: us┌──[[email protected]]─[~] … Read more
Using an Nvidia graphics adapter on Linux is very useful, it allows gaming and using 3D modeling software. But if you need to know what processes are using your adapter, then you need to install a useful utility. This is called nvtop. Install it like this. ┌──[[email protected]]─[/] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt install nvtop┌──[[email protected]]─[/] └──╼ … Read more
This is a very simple program that prints information about the kernel version and nodename. This is very useful when building a larger system information program. sysinfo.c1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 … Read more
The ffmpeg utility is very useful for transcoding video and making video files, but it can also retrieve information from a video or audio file very easily. You can get the ID3 info from an mp3 very easily. Below is an example. I am getting album and artist information from an mp3 audio file. jason@jason-desktop:~/Music/Ludwig … Read more
Get RAM information with the Linux command line and inxi. 4.4 Thu May 02 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo inxi -m 1) All commands run with root privileges are always dangerous. 2) Never run commands on an environment you are not willing to destroy, or able to restore. 3) Do not become root until you know … Read more
This is very easy to do. Get comprehensive hardware information about your desktop computer with a simple script. This is available to install for newer Ubuntu releases, but for those of us using an LTS release, the script may be downloaded from this page. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-probe/1.5-1. Unpack the tarball and then run the script to generate … Read more
Getting information about your CPU on Linux is very easy. There are many ways to do this. The cpufreq app is one good way to get the current CPU frequency. 4.4 Thu Jun 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cpufreq-info -f -m 988 MHz4.4 Thu Jun 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cpufreq-info -f -m 988 MHz This command … Read more
This command will print information about your swap partition easily using the Linux command line. root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3 The –show parameter … Read more
Add a new directory to the PATH to allow running an application from it without typing the full path every time you wish to run it. PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/binPATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin Or you may have something like this in your .bashrc to add this every time you log in. PATH="/home/jason/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"; export PATH;PATH="/home/jason/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"; export PATH; This can also be set … Read more
A useful VBScript sample to get user information. This is just basic information about the user. ‘ Logoninformation.vbs ‘ VBScript Logon script. ‘ This program demonstrates how to get information about the logged in user. ‘ This script tested on a Windows 7 machine and works perfectly too. ‘ ———————————————————————- ‘ Copyright (c) 2012 John … Read more
The OpenBSD operating system has many ways to get system info. One way is to use the sysstat utility. This returns comprehensive information about a running UNIX system. Run sysstat with no parameters and you will get output like this. 2 users Load 0.51 0.36 0.16 neo.home 10:32:19 memory totals (in KB) PAGING SWAPPING … Read more
The smartctl utility for Linux is the best way to get comprehensive information about all of your hard drives in your Linux system. This can be used to get the health of your drives and see if they need replacing. This is how you do it. 4.4 Mon Mar 25 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo smartctl … Read more