Check Ubuntu's Computer Hardware Such As BIOS, Processor and Motherboard In Command Line

Although there is a GUI way to check for your machine's hardware such as Motherboard, BIOS, Processor and etc. - for Linux admnistrators, there is no cooler way to do it than using the command line. In Ubuntu, hardware information can be retrieve from Dump Desktop Management Interface package (dmidecode). Let's start learning how we can check the hardware from command line by launching the Terminal and typing the following commands.


To display the BIOS information on the terminal:
sudo dmidecode -t bios or sudo dmidecode -t 0

For processor information, use the following command:
sudo dmidecode -t processor or sudo dmidecode -t 4

To show the board information on the terminal, run the command:
sudo dmidecode -t baseboard or sudo dmidecode -t 3

To see the OEM information of your machine, run the command:
sudo dmidecode -t 11

To check for CPU ID:
sudo dmidecode -t 4 | grep ID

To list for available commands on dmidecode package:
sudo dmidecode -t



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