hardinfo2 - Man Page

System Information and Benchmark for Linux Systems.

Usage

hardinfo2 [OPTION...]

Description

Is a system information and benchmark for Linux systems, that gathers information about the  hardware and operating system, performs benchmarks with online compare against other machines, and generates reports.

Online Userguide with more info: https://hardinfo2.org/userguide

Options

-h,  --help

Show help options

-q,  --quiet

do not print status messages to standard output

-r,  --generate-report

creates a report and prints to standard output

-f,  --report-format

chooses a report format (text, html)

-t,  --topic

search for a topic in CLI report (-t getlist shows available)

-c,  --topic-cache

search for a topic in Cached CLI report (-t getlist shows available)

-b,  --run-benchmark

run a specific benchmark eg. -b 'FPU FFT'  (Default all benchmarks runs when generate report)

-u, --user-note Group-MachineName[-ServerReq]

adds a user note to data send to server. When added eg. -u 1 synchronization is activated. Letters (small+caps) and numbers and dashes are accepted. Length max 50. 0-2 dashes used as seperator. Format Group-MachineName-ServerReq Group and MachineName are for anonymous identification and can put benchmarks into a group and you can sort of identify each machine by your chosen string. ServerReq is to tell the server which records you want to get. See https://hardinfo2.org/userguide#usernote for more details about the Server Request strings available.

-g,  --result-format

chooses a result format (short, conf, shell)

-n,  --max-results

maximum number of benchmark results to include (-1 for no limit, default is 50)

-v,  --version

shows program version and quit

-s,  --skip-benchmark

Disables all benchmark runs.

-w,  --very-verbose

show all details

Examples

examples of CLI command usage:

hardinfo2 -b 'FPU FFT'

runs only FPU FFT benchmark

hardinfo2 -u 1

enable updates at startup and starts gui (can also be set in gui)

hardinfo2 -u choosengroup-choosenid -r

Updates data from server, generate CLI report and sends benchmark with user-note. See more at https://hardinfo2.org/userguide#usernote

hardinfo2 -r

generates CLI report

Info

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