{"id":387,"date":"2026-06-29T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:56:59","slug":"linux-how-to-get-system-specs-from-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/29\/linux-how-to-get-system-specs-from-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: how to get system specs from terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Examining a Linux system, one might wonder about the computer it&#8217;s installed on.<\/h3>\n<p>\nThe following is by my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Linux, to find system information from the terminal, one might use the following commands:<\/p>\n<p>\nfree -h, to find the RAM\n<\/p>\n<p>\ndf -h, to find disk\/storage capacity<\/p>\n<p>\nlscpu, to find CPU info (speed, cores, model, etc)<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/man7.org\/linux\/man-pages\/man1\/lscpu.1.html\">man7.org: lscpu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/man7.org\/linux\/man-pages\/man1\/free.1.html\">man7.org: free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linux.die.net\/man\/1\/df\">linux.die.net: df<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\">-js<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examining a Linux system, one might wonder about the computer it&#8217;s installed on. The following is by my understanding. In Linux, to find system information from the terminal, one might use the following commands: free -h, to find the RAM df -h, to find disk\/storage capacity lscpu, to find CPU info (speed, cores, model, etc) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[114,90],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-system-information","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}