dmidecode : Finding everything about your hardware.

Only one command in terminal and all the Hardware related information is dumped in human readable format on your terminal.

I was wondering how can I found the Model number and product number of my laptop from terminal. Searching over the Internet fetch me this command.


$ sudo dmidecode 

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Man page says -

dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers  and  BIOS  revision.  Thanks  to  this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware.

DMI stands for Desktop Management Interface.