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INXI : System information and More

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Paul Sutton

One of the nice things about hangong out on IRC and or with Linux user groups is you get to find out about all sorts of hidden gems.

INXI is one such gem. : https://code.google.com/p/inxi/

It is a full featured system information tool or as the website describes it “A newer, better system information script for irc, administration, and system troubleshooters.”

i believe this is installed by default on Mint and a few others for xubuntu you need to install it

sudo apt-get install inxi should do it

As with all or a vast majority of Linux commands there is a man page

man inxi

so what can it do

Well , to get some basic system information up you can use the -Sx argument

Source code   
$ sudo inxi -Sx
System:    Host: ER1401 Kernel: 3.13.0-30-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.11.6 (Gtk 2.24.23) Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

One of the more non system features is one that can give you info on local weather

Source code   
inxi -xxxWTorquay,Uk
Weather:   Conditions: 70 F (21 C) - Partly Cloudy Wind: From the South at 16 MPH Humidity: 78%
           Pressure: 29.98 in (1015 mb) Location: Torquay (UK) Altitude: 0 ft 
           Time: August 5, 4:52 PM BST Observation Time: August 5, 4:20 PM BST

Which is useful you can also invoke this from IRC clients with

/exec -c inxi -xxxWTorquay,Uk

for example which then executes within IRC, (not all channels appreciate this)

One of the ideas of this program is to provide people with system information so they can help you

of course you can send out put to a file with

/exec -c inxi -xxxWTorquay,Uk > output.txt
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