Provided by: inxi_1.9.17-1_all 
NAME
inxi - Command line system information script for console and IRC
SYNOPSIS
inxi - Single line, short form. Very basic output.
inxi [-AbCdDfFGhHiIlMnNopPrRsSuw] [-c NUMBER] [-v NUMBER]
inxi [-t (c or m or cm or mc NUMBER)] [-x -OPTION(s)] [-xx -OPTION(s)] [-xxx -OPTION(s)]
inxi [--help] [--recommends] [--version] [-@ NUMBER]
DESCRIPTION
inxi is a command line system information script built for for console and IRC. It is also used for forum
technical support, as a debugging tool, to quickly ascertain user system configuration and hardware. inxi
shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, GCC version(s), Processes, RAM usage, and a
wide variety of other useful information.
inxi output varies between CLI and IRC, with some default filters and color options applied to IRC use.
Script colors can be turned off if desired with -c 0, or changed using the -c color options listed in the
OPTIONS section below.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
In order to maintain basic privacy and security, inxi filters out automatically on IRC things like your
network card mac address, WAN and LAN IP, your /home username directory in partitions, and a few other
things.
Because inxi is often used on forums for support, you can also trigger this filtering with the -z option
(-Fz, for example). To override the IRC filter, you can use the -Z option. This can be useful to debug
network connection issues online in a private chat, for example.
USING OPTIONS
Options can be combined if they do not conflict. Either group the letters together or separate them.
Letters with numbers can have no gap or a gap at your discretion unless using -t.
For example: inxi -AG or inxi -A -G or inxi -c10
STANDARD OPTIONS
-A Show Audio/sound card information.
-b Shows basic output, short form (previously -d). Same as: inxi -v 2
-c [0-32]
Available color schemes. Scheme number is required.
Supported color schemes: 0-32
-c [94-99]
Color selectors run a color selector option prior to inxi starting which lets you set the config
file value for the selection.
Color selectors for each type display.
(NOTE: irc and global only show safe color set):
-c 94 - Console, out of X.
-c 95 - Terminal, running in X - like xTerm.
-c 96 - Gui IRC, running in X - like Xchat, Quassel, Konversation etc.
-c 97 - Console IRC running in X - like irssi in xTerm.
-c 98 - Console IRC not in X.
-c 99 - Global - Overrides/removes all settings.
Setting specific color type removes the global color selection.
-C Show full CPU output, including per CPU clockspeed if available.
-d Shows optical drive data. Same as -Dd. With -x, adds features line to output. -xx adds a few more
features.
-D Show full hard Disk info, not only model, ie: /dev/sda ST380817AS 80.0GB.
-f Show all cpu flags used, not just the short list. Not shown with -F to avoid spamming. ARM cpus:
show features items.
-F Show Full output for inxi. Includes all Upper Case line letters, plus -s and -n. Does not show
extra verbose options like -x -d -f -u -l -o -p -t -r unless you use that argument.
-G Show Graphic card information (card, x type, resolution, glx renderer, version).
-h This help menu.
--help Same as -h
-H This help menu, plus developer options. Do not use dev options in normal operation!
-i Show Wan IP address, and shows local interfaces (requires ifconfig network tool). Same as -Nni.
Not shown with -F for user security reasons, you shouldn't paste your local/wan IP.
-I Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, irc client (or shell type if run in shell, not irc),
inxi version.
-l Show partition labels. Default: short partition -P. For full -p output, use: -pl (or -plu).
-M Show machine data. Motherboard, Bios, and if present, System Builder (Like Lenovo). Older
systems/kernels without the required /sys data can use dmidecode instead, run as root. If using
dmidecode, may also show bios revision as well as version.
-n Show Advanced Network card information. Same as -Nn. Shows interface, speed, mac id, state, etc.
-N Show Network card information. With -x, shows PCI BusID, Port number.
-o Show unmounted partition information (includes UUID and LABEL if available). Shows file system
type if you have file installed, if you are root OR if you have added to /etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7
or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file (sample)
Does not show components (partitions that create the md raid array) of md-raid arrays.
-p Show full partition information (-P plus all other detected partitions).
-P Show Partition information (shows what -v 4 would show, but without extra data). Shows, if
detected: / /boot /home /tmp /usr /var. Use -p to see all mounted partitions.
-r Show distro repository data. Currently supported repo types: APT (Debian, Ubuntu + derived
versions)
PACMAN (Arch Linux + derived versions)
PISI (Pardus + derived versions)
URPMQ (Mandriva, Mageia + derived versions)
YUM. (Fedora, Redhat, maybe Suse + derived versions)
(as distro data is collected more will be added. If your's is missing please show us how to get
this information and we'll try to add it.)
-R Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, and components, and extra data with -x / -xx.
md-raid: If device is resyncing, shows resync progress line as well.
--recommends
Checks inxi application dependencies + recommends, and directories, then shows what package(s) you
need to install to add support for that feature.
-s Show sensors output (if sensors installed/configured): mobo/cpu/gpu temp; detected fan speeds. Gpu
temp only for Fglrx/Nvidia drivers. Nvidia shows screen number for > 1 screens.
-S Show System information: host name, kernel, desktop environment (if in X), distro. With -xx show
dm - or startx - (only shows if present and running if out of X), and if in X, with -xxx show more
desktop info, like shell/panel etc.
-t [c or m or cm or mc NUMBER]
Show processes. If followed by numbers 1-20, shows that number of processes for each type
(default: 5; if in irc, max: 5)
Make sure to have no space between letters and numbers (-t cm10 - right, -t cm 10 - wrong).
-t c - cpu only. With -x, shows also memory for that process on same line.
-t m - memory only. With -x, shows also cpu for that process on same line.
-t cm - cpu+memory. With -x, shows also cpu or memory for that process on same line.
-u Show partition UUIDs. Default: short partition -P. For full -p output, use: -pu (or -plu).
-U Note - Maintainer may have disabled this function. If inxi -h has no listing for U then its
disabled. Auto-update script. Note: if you installed as root, you must be root to update,
otherwise user is fine. Also installs /updates this Man Page to: /usr/share/man/man8 This requires
that you be root to write to that directory.
-V inxi version information. Prints information then exits.
--version
same as -V
-v Script verbosity levels. Verbosity level number is required. Should not be used with -b or -F.
Supported levels: 0-7 Examples : inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4
-v 0 - Short output, same as: inxi
-v 1 - Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU + -G + basic Disk + -I.
-v 2 - Adds networking card (-N), Machine (-M) data, and shows basic hard disk data (names only). Same
as: inxi -b
-v 3 - Adds advanced CPU (-C); network (-n) data; triggers -x advanced data option.
-v 4 - Adds partition size/filled data (-P) for (if present):/, /home, /var/, /boot Shows full disk
data (-D)
-v 5 - Adds audio card (-A); sensors (-s), partition label (-l) and UUID (-u), short form of optical
drives.
-v 6 - Adds full partition data (-p), unmounted partition data (-o), optical drive data (-d); triggers
-xx extra data option.
-v 7 - Adds network IP data (-i); triggers -xxx
-w Adds weather line. Note, this depends on an unreliable api so it may not always be working in the
future. To get weather for an alternate location, use -W <location_string>. See also -x, -xx,
-xxx option. Please note, your distribution's maintainer may chose to disable this feature, so if
-w or -W don't work, that's why.
-W <location_string>
Get weather/time for an alternate location. Accepts postal/zip code, city,state pair, or
latitude,longitude. Note: city/country/state names must not contain spaces. Replace spaces with
'+' sign. No spaces around , (comma). Use only ascii letters in city/state/country names, sorry.
Examples: -W 95623 OR -W Boston,MA OR -W45.5234,-122.6762 OR -W new+york,ny OR -W bodo,norway.
-z Adds security filters for IP addresses, Mac, location (-w), and user home directory name. Default
on for irc clients.
-Z Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging networking issues in irc for example.
EXTRA DATA OPTIONS
These options are for long form only, and can be triggered by one or more -x, like -xx. Alternately, the
-v options trigger them in the following way: -v 3 adds -x; -v 6 adds -xx; -v 7 adds -xxx
These extra data triggers can be useful for getting more in-depth data on various options. Can be added
to any long form option list, like: -bxx or -Sxxx
There are 3 extra data levels: -x; -xx; and -xxx
The following shows which lines / items get extra information with each extra data level.
-x -A - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each Audio device.
-x -A - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Audio device.
-x -C - bogomips on CPU (if available).
-x -d - Adds items to features line of optical drive; adds rev version to optical drive.
-x -D - Hdd temp with disk data if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root OR if you have added to
/etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp (sample)
-x -G - Direct rendering status for Graphics (in X).
-x -G - (for single gpu, nvidia driver) screen number gpu is running on.
-x -G - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Graphics card.
-x -i - Show IPv6 as well for LAN interface (IF) devices.
-x -I - Show system GCC, default. With -xx, also show other installed GCC versions.
-x -I - If in shell (not in IRC client, that is), show shell version number (if available).
-x -N - Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each Network card;
-x -N - Shows PCI Bus ID/Usb ID number of each Network card.
-x -R - md-raid: Shows component raid id. Adds second RAID Info line: raid level; report on drives (like
5/5); blocks; chunk size; bitmap (if present). Resync line, shows blocks synced/total blocks. -
zfs-raid: Shows raid array full size; available size; portion allocated to RAID (ie, not available
as storage)."
-x -S - Desktop toolkit if available (GNOME/XFCE/KDE only); Kernel gcc version.
-x -t - Adds memory use output to cpu (-xt c), and cpu use to memory (-xt m).
-x -w / -W
- Adds wind speed and time zone (-w only), and makes output go to two lines.
-xx -A - Adds vendor:product ID of each Audio device.
-xx -D - Adds disk serial number.
-xx -G - Adds vendor:product ID of each Graphics card.
-xx -I - Adds other detected installed gcc versions to primary gcc output (if present).
-xx -I - Adds parent program (or tty) that started shell, if not IRC client, to shell information.
-xx -M - Adds chassis information, if any data for that is available. Also shows BIOS rom size if using
dmidecode.
-xx -N - Adds vendor:product ID of each Network card.
-xx -R - md-raid: Adds superblock (if present); algorythm, U data. Adds system info line (kernel support,
read ahead, raid events). Adds if present, unused device line. If device is resyncing, shows
resync progress line as well.
-xx -S - Adds, if run in X, display manager type to Desktop information, if present. If none, shows N/A.
Supports most known display managers, like xdm, gdm, kdm, slim, lightdm, or mdm.
-xx -w / -W
- Adds humidity and barometric pressure.
-xx -@ <11-14>
- Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.techpatterns.com.
-xxx -S
- Adds, if run in X, shell/panel type info to Desktop information, if present. If none, shows
nothing. Supports some current desktop extras like gnome-panel, lxde-panel, and others. Added
mainly for Mint support.
-xxx -w / -W
- Adds location (city state country), weather observation time, altitude of system. If wind
chill, heat index, or dew point are available, shows that data as well.
ADVANCED OPTIONS
-! 31 Turns off hostname in System line. Useful, with -z, for anonymizing your inxi output for posting
on forums or IRC.
-! 32 Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi config file value (if set): B_SHOW_HOST='false'.
DEBUGGING OPTIONS
-% Overrides defective or corrupted data.
-@ Triggers debugger output. Requires debugging level 1-14 (8-10 - logging of data). Less than 8
just triggers inxi debugger output on screen.
-@ [1-7]
- On screen debugger output.
-@ 8 - Basic logging. Check /home/yourname/.inxi/inxi*.log
-@ 9 - Full file/sys info logging.
-@ 10 - Color logging.
-@ <11-14>
The following create a tar.gz file of system data, plus collecting the inxi output to file: To
automatically upload debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.techpatterns.com: inxi -xx@ <11-14> For
alternate ftp upload locations: Example:
inxi -! ftp.yourserver.com/incoming -xx@ 14
-@ 11 - With data file of xiin read of /sys
-@ 12 - With xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo, glxinfo etc.
-@ 13 - With data from dev, disks, partitions, etc., plus xiin data file.
-@ 14 - Everything, full data collection.
SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS
BitchX, Gaim/Pidgin, ircII, Irssi, Konversation, Kopete, KSirc, KVIrc, Weechat, and Xchat. Plus any
others that are capable of displaying either built in or external script output.
RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT
To trigger inxi output in your IRC client, pick the appropriate method from the list below:
Xchat, irssi (and many other IRC clients)
/exec -o inxi [options]
If you leave off the -o, only you will see the output on your local IRC client.
Konversation
/cmd inxi [options]
To run inxi in konversation as a native script if your distribution or inxi package did not do
this for you, create this symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversation/scripts/inxi
If inxi is somewhere else, change the path /usr/local/bin to wherever it is located.
Then you can start inxi directly, like this:
/inxi [options]
WeeChat
/shell -o inxi [options]
Before WeeChat can run external scripts like inxi, you need to install the weechat-plugins
package. This is automatically installed for Debian users. Next, if you don't already have it,
you need to install shell.py, which is a python script.
In a web browser, Click on the download button at:
http://www.weechat.org/scripts/source/stable/shell.py.html/
Make the script executable by
chmod +x shell.py
Move it to your home folder: /.weechat/python/autoload/ then logout, and start WeeChat with
weechat-curses
Top of screen should say what pythons scripts have loaded, and should include shell. Then to run
inxi, you would enter a command like this:
/shell -o inxi -bx
If you leave off the -o, only you will see the output on your local weechat. WeeChat users may
also like to check out the weeget.py
INITIALIZATION FILE
inxi will read the following configuration/initialization files in the following order:
/etc/inxi.conf
$HOME/.inxi/inxi.conf
See wiki pages for more information on how to set these up:
http://code.google.com/p/inxi/wiki/script_configuration_files
BUGS
Please report bugs using the following resources.
You may be asked to run the inxi debugger tool which will upload a data dump of all system files for use
in debugging inxi. These data dumps are very important since they provide us with all the real system
data inxi uses to parse out its report.
inxi main website/svn/wiki, file an issue report:
http://code.google.com/p/inxi/issues/list
post on inxi developer forums:
http://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-32.html
You can also visit
irc.oftc.net channel: #smxi to post issues.
HOMEPAGE
http://code.google.com/p/inxi
AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE
inxi is is a fork of locsmif's largely unmaintained yet very clever, infobash script.
Original infobash author and copyright holder: Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Michiel de Boer a.k.a. locsmif
inxi version: Copyright (C) 2008-13 Scott Rogers & Harald Hope
Further fixes (listed as known): Horst Tritremmel <hjt at sidux.com>
Steven Barrett (aka: damentz) - usb audio patch; swap percent used patch. Jarett.Stevens - dmidecode -M
patch for older systems with no /sys
And a special thanks to the nice people at irc.oftc.net channels #linux-smokers-club and #smxi, who all
really have to be considered to be co-developers because of their non-stop enthusiasm and willingness to
provide real time testing and debugging of inxi development.
Without a wide range of diverse Linux kernel based Free Desktop systems to test on, we could never have
gotten inxi to be as reliable and solid as it's turning out to be.
And of course, big thanks locsmif, who figured out a lot of the core methods, logic, and tricks used in
inxi.
Further thanks to the various inxi package maintainers, distro support people, forum moderators, and
others, who contribute ideas, suggestions, and patches.
This Man page was originally created by Gordon Spencer (aka aus9) and is maintained by Harald Hope (aka
h2 or TechAdmin).
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