How to Get Hardware Information with Dmidecode Command on Linux | Linux Today

How to Get Hardware Information with Dmidecode Command on Linux

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Ravi Saive
Oct 5, 2015

In this article we’ll see how we can use Dmidecode command to retrieve hardware information of any Linux system. Suppose if we want to upgrade a system we need to gather information like Memory, BIOS and CPU etc. With help of Dmidecode command we will come to know the details without opening system chasis. Dmidecode command works for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu Linux.

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Ravi Saive

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