Get lovely system information with btop on Linux.
Get lovely system information on Lnux with a very nice utility.
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How to get video information from YouTube in JSON format and parse it.
How to list information from a YouTube video in the terminal on Linux.
Read MoreA nice program to display RAM and swap usage on Linux.
A simple C program to print RAM and Swap usage information on Linux.
Read MoreGet information about an IP address using the command line on Linux.
How to get comprehensive IP address information with the command line on Linux.
Read MoreAnother good way to get CPU information on Linux and see all cores.
How to get CPU information about core usage and processes on Linux.
Read MoreHow to get information about connected monitors on Linux.
How to get information about your connected monitors on Linux. This is very easy.
Read MoreParsing the contents of the Apache web server logs is a heap of fun.
How to easily parse Apache server logs and get useful information.
Read MoreGet information about your Linux boot easily.
How to get useful information about the boot time of your Linux system.
Read MoreGet information about your peripherals with Linux easily.
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 =…
Read MoreHow to get useful information about your Nvidia adapter on Linux.
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]]─[/] └──╼ ╼ $…
Read MoreA simple program to print information about kernel version and nodename.
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…
Read MoreHow to get ID3 information from a multimedia file with ffmpeg.
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…
Read MoreEasily get Linux system information with simple utilities.
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…
Read MoreGet hardware information from your desktop PC on a website easily.
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…
Read MoreHow to easily get information about your CPU on Linux.
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…
Read MoreGet information about your swap partition with this simple command.
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…
Read MoreVery useful Linux shell tips and tricks.
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;…
Read MoreSome very useful Windows 7 scripts to get system information.
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. ‘ ———————————————————————-…
Read MoreGet information about your OpenBSD system easily.
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…
Read MoreHow to view comprehensive information about your hard drive using Linux.
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…
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