Find basic system specification information in Linux

One of the things we do a lot of in Computer Recycling is find the specifications for a donated machine. Typically we go into the BIOS or look at the hardware, but sometimes there's a need to find system information from within a booted Linux system. Since the command line is pretty much universal the following command should work on just about any Linux system:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' > sysinfo.txt | cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal >> sysinfo.txt | df -hH >> sysinfo.txt

I put this 1 line command, which is actually 4 commands strung together in a file I called findinfo. Then I run chmod ug+x findinfo. What this does is make findinfo executable. It can then be run from the directory it's in by typing: ./findinfo

Of course you can just run the long string of commands as they are above, but it's a little hard to remember.

What this string of commands does is create a file called sysinfo.txt which contains the CPU information (if like the screen shot you see 2 CPUs listed it means your system is either hyperthreaded or dual core), the amount of memory, and the hard drive space and partitioning (in marketing specs 1000kb vs 1024kb). Sysinfo.txt can be read with any text editor or you can just run: less sysinfo.txt