All types of inxi

[Tsla]

I was always wondering what is the "full list" of inxi commands, and which one is the most general one that shows almost full machine specs?

[JoeFootball]

... which one is the most general one that shows almost full machine specs?

inxi -Fxxxrz

[Tsla]

... which one is the most general one that shows almost full machine specs?

inxi -Fxxxrz

Useful thanks!

[Neil Edmond]

Fairly complete list and explanation here: https://www.tecmint.com/inxi-command-to ... formation/

[JoeFootball]

Note the above article is from 2017, so while indeed informative, there may be additional options available in later release. Likewise, it may include options not available in prior releases.

The current set of options for your particular installation would be ...

inxi -h

[kc1di]

The is an extensive manual file accessed by the command

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man inxi

It list most of the options and commands.

[AZgl1800]

anymore, I just use inxi -F

that produces all of the stuff you usually need to see anyway, and a lot easier to remember and type.

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john@FX705GM:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host: FX705GM Kernel: 5.4.0-58-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 
           Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: TUF Gaming FX705GM_FX705GM v: 1.0 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX705GM v: 1.0 serial: <root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: FX705GM.307 
           date: 05/25/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 55.1 Wh condition: 55.1/64.1 Wh (86%) 
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 9216 KiB 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 801 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 
           8: 800 9: 801 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 440.95.01 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.95.01 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: sof-audio-pci 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-58-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlo1 state: up mac: b4:69:21:c6:ba:97 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: 04:92:26:09:82:4c 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 281.83 GiB (30.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 453.53 GiB used: 112.87 GiB (24.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 46 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 301 Uptime: 11h 06m Memory: 15.49 GiB used: 1.65 GiB (10.7%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32 
john@FX705GM:~$ 

[BenTrabetere]

anymore, I just use inxi -F
that produces all of the stuff you usually need to see anyway, and a lot easier to remember and type.

I use it most of the time, too. However, it might not be the best choice if you are sharing the information because it includes the MAC addresses. inxi -Fc inxi -Fz will filter the MAC information.

Edited to correct a silly mistake.

[antikythera]

-Fz would filter out all serial numbers as well as the mac address

[AZgl1800]

-Fz would filter out all serial numbers as well as the mac address

then I will change my habits to always make it -Fz

[h2-1]

It's easy, to see the most possible: sudo inxi -zyv8 for public use, and sudo inxi -v8 for private use. sudo so the stuff that requires root, lke --slots, -m, -L will run fully. unlike running as root, sudo will preserve the gfx and desktop data.

-v8 basically shows all system options, so if some are added, like -L in 3.2.00, it's added to somewhere in the -v x selectors. In the case of -L it's added to -v8 because it requires root and many people do not use lvm/luks/bcache

[antikythera]

sudo inxi -zyv8

I'm guessing that's meant to be a u instead of a y? I tried y and the command was rejected as per the message below I copied from terminal:

Error 10: Unsupported value: 0 for option: y
Check -h for correct parameters.

-zuv8 works okay

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System:
  Host: aures Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 wm: muffin 4.6.3 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: AM1M-S2H v: x.x serial: N/A 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F2 date: 06/20/2014 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.11 GiB used: 2.12 GiB (14.0%) 
  Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max module size: 8 GiB 
  note: est. 
  Device-1: DIMM 0 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s type: DDR3 
  detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus width: 64 bits 
  total: 64 bits manufacturer: N/A part-no: 1600 CL9 Series serial: N/A 
  Device-2: DIMM 1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s type: DDR3 
  detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus width: 64 bits 
  total: 64 bits manufacturer: N/A part-no: 1600 CL9 Series serial: N/A 
PCI Slots:
  Slot: 0 type: x16 PCI Express J6B2 status: In Use length: Long 
  Slot: 1 type: x1 PCI Express J6B1 status: In Use length: Short 
  Slot: 2 type: x1 PCI Express J6D1 status: In Use length: Short 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Athlon 5350 APU with Radeon R3 bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Jaguar family: 16 (22) model-id: N/A stepping: 1 
  microcode: 700010F L1 cache: 256 KiB L2 cache: 2048 KiB bogomips: 16369 
  Speed: 2046 MHz min/max: 800/2050 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2046 2: 2046 
  3: 2046 4: 2046 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1 bpext clflush 
  cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists 
  extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs 
  lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr 
  nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter 
  pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt 
  proc_feedback pse pse36 rdtscp rep_good sep skinit ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 
  sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall topoext tsc tsc_scale vme vmmcall 
  wdt xsave xsaveopt 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 
  mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini [Radeon HD 8400 / R3 Series] vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:9830 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 3.27.0 4.19.0-13-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1 chip ID: 1002:9840 
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1022:780d 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-13-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: No WAN IP data found. Connected to the web? SSL issues? 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 76.30 GiB (16.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT500MX500SSD1 size: 465.76 GiB 
  block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: 023 temp: 35 C scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GH24NSB0 rev: LM01 
  dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
  Features: speed: 12 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 450.55 GiB size: 442.48 GiB (98.21%) 
  used: 76.29 GiB (17.2%) fs: ext4 block size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2 
  label: N/A uuid: f8b8da8e-7dd8-4f5b-900c-28f5d790a650 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 100.0 MiB size: 98.4 MiB (98.45%) 
  used: 5.2 MiB (5.2%) fs: vfat block size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 5D63-82DB 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 15.12 GiB used: 5.5 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda3 
  label: N/A uuid: 679b90af-4121-4849-911e-cac64c9a10cd 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Alcor Micro Flash Card Reader/Writer 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 058f:6362 serial: <filter> 
  Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
  Device-2: 3-2:2 info: MosArt type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid 
  interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 062a:4102 
  Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Device-3: 4-2:2 info: Weltrend Speed-Link Competition Pro type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 040b:6533 serial: <filter> 
  Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
  Hub: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
  Device-4: 6-1:2 
  info: American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 051d:0002 serial: <filter> 
  Device-5: 6-2:3 info: Chicony KU-2971/KU-0325 Keyboard type: Keyboard 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 04f2:0116 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 24 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/packages.linuxmint.com/packages debbie main upstream import backport
  2: deb http://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  3: deb http://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  4: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  5: deb http://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 
  1: cpu: 52.8% 
  command: ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mip1_rosetta_7.16_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 
  pid: 3955 mem: 119.3 MiB (0.7%) 
  2: cpu: 51.8% 
  command: ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.43_i686-pc-linux-gnu 
  pid: 3988 mem: 57.4 MiB (0.3%) 
  3: cpu: 51.6% 
  command: ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.43_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 
  pid: 3991 mem: 71.4 MiB (0.4%) 
  4: cpu: 51.3% 
  command: ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.43_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 
  pid: 3989 mem: 65.5 MiB (0.4%) 
  5: cpu: 18.6% command: firefox-bin pid: 4575 mem: 282.7 MiB (1.8%) 
  Memory top: 5 
  1: mem: 290.7 MiB (1.8%) command: firefox pid: 4520 cpu: 11.3% 
  2: mem: 282.7 MiB (1.8%) command: firefox-bin pid: 4575 cpu: 18.6% 
  3: mem: 166.6 MiB (1.0%) command: cinnamon pid: 1428 cpu: 8.1% 
  4: mem: 120.9 MiB (0.7%) command: firefox-bin pid: 4684 cpu: 0.3% 
  5: mem: 119.3 MiB (0.7%) 
  command: ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mip1_rosetta_7.16_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 
  pid: 3955 cpu: 52.8% 
Info:
  Processes: 208 Uptime: 35m Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
  gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash (sudo) v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.0.32 

I've taken out the nvidia GPU tonight. The system is actually more responsive without it, plus a lot cooler and quieter. I can run it fanless again with the exception of the PSU of course. Even that is in eco mode though so the fan only spins up to cool it occasionally.

The only reason I had the nvidia card in there before was because of preventing the integrated R3 GPU from consuming RAM I wanted to use for virtual machines. Now there's enough RAM for the R3 GPU and VMs. I could probably ditch the swap too but currently have the machine set to hibernate if the UPS gets low on battery during a mains outage.

The system has allocated 1GB of RAM to the GPU and it's smooth as butter.

[h2-1]

I forget that mint is running a legacy inxi, -y is what I meant, but I think that came along in 3.1, -u has no meaning since -v8 already runs everything, including -u. -y is a shortcut for -y80, which lets you insert the y wherever you want, not only at the end with the numbers after it.

[antikythera]

Ah okay thanks for the explanation

[BG405]

How about this one?

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sudo inxi --full --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host

More self-explanatory IMHO.
Should work on fairly recent inxi versions, at least from inxi: 3.0.24.

[Gruppo Sportivo]

Should work on fairly recent inxi versions, at least from inxi: 3.0.24.

To see which Inxi version you are using.

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inxi --version

Allow Update to the latest version (which is 3.2.01-00 )
Many distribution inxi packages have disabled the -U self-updater option.(why it is unclear to me)

If you would like to get an up-to-date inxi, open the file inxi.conf with

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xed admin:///etc/inxi.conf

then change the false value to true:
B_ALLOW_UPDATE=true
and then save the file. When you next run:

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sudo inxi -U

inxi will update itself and the man page.

[antikythera]

If you would like to get an up-to-date inxi, open the file inxi.conf with

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xed admin:///etc/inxi.conf

then change the false value to true:
B_ALLOW_UPDATE=true
and then save the file. When you next run:

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sudo inxi -U

inxi will update itself and the man page.

Done and working for LMDE4, thanks very much for this tip.

[AZgl1800]

many thanks for this tip:

Mine updated several steps all at once.

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Currently running inxi version number: 3.0.32
Current version patch number: 00
Current version release date: 2019-02-07
Updating inxi in /usr/bin using main branch as download source...
Successfully updated to main branch version: 3.2.01

[h2-1]

sudo inxi --full --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host

I see this one pop up, and most of all, it indicates the problem with stringing together random arguments without even checking if they are required, that is, read the help/man before suggesting redundant arguments like this.

If you want the long foms, here's the actual one:

sudo inxi --verbosity=7 --filter --admin

-full is a subset of --verbosity=7; --no-host is activated by --filter, but to me, why use these long args in the first place, they are hard to type, hard to remember, when you can change the above to:

sudo inxi -zav7

isn't that a lot easier to remember and type? Note that there is NO difference in output between
sudo inxi -zav7
and
sudo inxi --full --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host

Another common mistake I see is people not actually reading, or testing, or checking, what -F contains, so they will do stuff like -FGSM, GSM of course always being activated by -F. Other pointless redundancies are -Fxxxa when -a switches on -xxx automatically. There was a very brief period early in -a days that -a didn't activate -xxx but that didn't last very long, but I don't remember which version of inxi made that change. The older a distro's inxi gets, the harder it is to remember these things.

[BG405]

I see this one pop up, and most of all, it indicates the problem with stringing together random arguments without even checking if they are required, that is, read the help/man before suggesting redundant arguments like this.

Exactly, it's why I posted it. It's being recommended on another Forum.

I just use inxi -Fxxxz & if needed, tag on && sudo inxi -m (same line). I add other options e.g. -d as needed.

Many distribution inxi packages have disabled the -U self-updater option.(why it is unclear to me)

Nor me (bolded part). I don't know if this is the case for Mint 20 (haven't checked yet) but if I recall correctly, it was on 17.x and maybe 18.x. I'd actually forgotten about that as I changed the conf setting a long time ago.