Getting a concise and informative list of all the hardware components on your system can be hard. The standard tool is lshw. This is a great tool but it’s output can be very verbose.
I recently discovered a different tool that a really terrific job of showing you your hardware information:
The feature I particularly like is that it prints the drive that each piece of hardware is using.
Use it with the following options to get a list of all your hardware:
inxii -Fxxxi
- F - Full, all your hardware.
- xxx - Be extra,extra verbose.
- i - Include IP address information.
Here’s the output for my laptop:
