 Today we're going to be looking at a list HW command, now this command will list pretty much all the hardware on your system. So it is something that probably should be run as sudo or root, otherwise you may not get all the information that you're requesting. As you see if you forget and you hit enter it says warning this should be run as a super user while it's scanning the system. You will get an output and a lot of information but there are certain things you can't view without being either sudo or root. So we'll sudo that, type in password and it will scan and run and give me an output which of course I can pipe into a file or grep through and gives you hardware information on the hard drives, the motherboard, USB stuff, all your hardware, firewire, PCI, you know and there's other commands for these individual but if you wanted to grab all that information and once it is list LSHW so list hardware. Now of course as always you can man that and see all the different information and there's a lot of different information here on how to output, you know you can output the device tree as an HTML page. So if you're running this on a server you can have the output display in HTML for a server side script so you can view it in a web browser, XML, you know a bunch of different stuff here. So you can just go through that, definitely look through the man file, that's great to do with any program you're using, it's not very long for this one and you can also instead of piping it there is a dump feature to dump it to a file. So that's just a quick look at that but I also wanted to show you a application very similar. LSHW is installed on pretty much most systems if not all systems by default but this next one is not, it's called LSHW-GTK probably in your repositories but it's the same thing but it's a GUI interface for it and I like to show this stuff every once in a while because anything that can be done from the command line can be done in a GUI interface as well. It's just usually more convenient to do it from the command line but just wanted to show this as an example and this is well as well you can run it as a regular user but you won't get all the proper information so sudo or root it and let me pull this up here so you can see now that I've run it and it just ran a scan so here's my computer gives me a basic overview right there basically it's taking all the same information and displaying it out bit by bit here depending on what I click so I can click this or double click this there's my motherboard double click that I can click on my CPU I get information on my CPU here memory so it's all the same information just displayed in a GUI interface that you can click on so that's another look at that basically GUI front end for the command line back end so that's LSHW-GTK and the command line version is just LSHW same information just displayed in a GUI interface so I thank you for watching please visit filmsbychrist.com that's Chris of the K there'll be a link in the description of that as well as my Facebook fan page check that out to keep up to date not only on my videos but just Linux and open source news I post things there regularly also if you enjoy my videos please visit my website and think about clicking on the donate button and donating a few bucks if you can also you can follow me on Twitter there'll be a link to that on my website I also have an RSS feed that I've been working on but as far as my Twitter account my Facebook account tend to post the same stuff on both but if you want to follow me on both that's great as well so as always I thank you for watching and I hope that you have a great day