INXI(1)inxi manual INXI(1)NAMEinxi - Command line system information script for console and IRC
SYNOPSISinxi - 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]
DESCRIPTIONinxi 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 ver‐
sion(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 auto‐
matically 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 net‐
work connection issues online in a private chat, for example.
USING OPTIONS
Options can be combined if they do not conflict. Either group the let‐
ters 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
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-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 selec‐
tion.
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 ifcon‐
fig 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 par‐
titions).
-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 compo‐
nents, 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 directo‐
ries, then shows what package(s) you need to install to add sup‐
port 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, oth‐
erwise 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.
-Vinxi 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/coun‐
try/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 Bos‐
ton,MA OR -W45.5234,-122.6762 OR -W new+york,ny OR -W bodo,nor‐
way.
-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 net‐
working 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 - Show current runlevel.
-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 out‐
put (if present).
-xx -I - Show, if detected, system default runlevel. Supports Sys‐
temd/Upstart/Sysvinit type defaults. Note that not all systemd
systems have the default value set, in that case, if present, it
will use the data from /etc/inittab.
-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 informa‐
tion, if present. If none, shows N/A. Supports most known dis‐
play 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.tech‐
patterns.com.
-xxx -S
- Adds, if run in X, shell/panel type info to Desktop informa‐
tion, 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 out‐
put 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 collect‐
ing 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 -oinxi [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 distribu‐
tion or inxi package did not do this for you, create this sym‐
bolic link:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversa‐
tion/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 -oinxi [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 com‐
mand like this:
/shell -oinxi-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 FILEinxi 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 CODEinxi 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, sugges‐
tions, 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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