Hi this is my first post and i am very new to Linux. Although i am quickly seeing the light

I am trying to write a bash script that can be run as part of an installation to detect what hardware is present on the target machine. I have spent a while messing around with different commands and exploring the proc and dev directories but feel that this is a rather clumy way of doing things.
Basically i want to obtain a list of the hardware but i don't really want to check all the different directories and where required parse the relevant info. I have also looked at prtdiag but again this would require parsing the relevant info.

Please don't think i'm being lazy i'm just trying to obtain the most efficient and elegant solution.

if anyone can point me in the right direction, has some advice or has been in this situation please let me know.

Thanks

On my Debian box, I use lspci, lshw, and lsusb to find out everything I need.

Thanks for the reply. I have been using lspci and lsusb but lshw doesn't work on my slax machine. Do you know of a command that will produce similar results.

I have found a module that solves my problem (detecting hardware). If anyone is interested the link is:

http://www.slax.org/modules.php?id=2574

Now i just have to get the info out. Thanks for the help pljvaldez.......

There's a very good script called sysinfo which gives lots of hardware info -even BIOS specs if you have bmidecsoe installed. The script has a dialog front-end for easy use and is a single executable file which can be copied into your path anywhere.

Because the name is rather ubiquitous I'll include a link to the script:
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/ind....3/SYSINFOV2.3