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2007-07-20

I love the linux command line 

I recently had an external hard drive die. It had been kind of flaky since I fell down the stairs at x-mass and dropped it about 6 ft. Since I knew it wasn't working well, I was using mostly as yet another location for backing up data (like from my parent's home network). So when I finally gave up on it this week, I had lost any data.

In planning for the replacement, I was trying to remember the hardware in the Ubuntu server, PopsHP, I have setup for my parents in their condo. A quick search of Google showed me the lshw command. It was already installed on PopsHP and when I ran it (via an ssh connection), it suggested that "you should run this program as super-user". Which I did and piped the resulting text to a file. Next I ran a little script I have that uses rsync to transfer files to a subdirectory in my home folder on my main desktop machine. So in under five minutes I had a complete and detailed listing of the hardware in PopsHP, on my local machine.

Then as a bonus, as I was typing up this blog post, I discovered that lshw will format its output as HTML. So in under a minute, I reran the entire process adding in the HTML command line switch.

What can I say except that I love linux.

# posted by TomS : 10:13 PM
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