Benjamin Golub’s blog

Nearly everyday I learn a few new tricks with Linux. Yesterday I learned about the lshw (LiSt HardWare) command. It lets you find out everything about your current hardware. To use it just type:

sudo lshw

To export as html:

sudo lshw -html > name-of-html.html

To export as xml:

sudo lshw -xml > name-of-xml.xml

This seems like a very handy tool; especially when you start building frankenstein computers out of random parts. If you don’t run it as the super-user you still get results but not as much and it issues a warning telling you that you should run it as the super-user.

Here’s my Inspiron 700m.