Basic Linux Commands to Check Hardware and System Information

Yagmur Sahin
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5 min readDec 26, 2020

Once the Linux kernel initializes, it enumerates all hardware components. There are plenty of commands to check information about the hardware of a Linux system. Some commands report only specific hardware components like CPU or memory while the rest cover multiple hardware units.

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