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Dmidecode System Information - Part 2

Posted on Jan 23, 2023 by kingbeowulf



As a follow-up to my previous post regarding obtaining system information via dmidecode, here is a small bash script for a quick motherboard summary using string keywords. This will display a short summary of your motherboard.

 1#!/bin/bash
 2
 3if [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then 
 4  echo "Please run as root, or use"
 5  echo "su -c \"sh $0\""
 6  exit 1
 7fi
 8
 9echo "Motherboard summary:"
10echo "--------------------"
11
12# string keywords, see 'man dmidecode'
13#bios-vendor, bios-version, bios-release-date, bios-revision,
14#firmware-revision, system-manufacturer, system-product-name,
15#system-version, system-serial-number, system-uuid,
16#system-sku-number, system-family, baseboard-manufacturer,
17#baseboard-product-name, baseboard-version, baseboard-serial-number,
18#baseboard-asset-tag, chassis-manufacturer, chassis-type,
19#chassis-version, chassis-serial-number, chassis-asset-tag,
20#processor-family, processor-manufacturer, processor-version,
21#processor-frequency
22
23for d in system-manufacturer system-product-name bios-release-date bios-version
24do
25   echo "${d^} : " $(dmidecode -s $d)
26done
27exit 0
1# sh mobo_summary.sh 
2Motherboard summary:
3--------------------
4System-manufacturer :  Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
5System-product-name :  X570 AORUS ELITE
6Bios-release-date :  10/14/2021
7Bios-version :  F36e

You can download a copy here. Note that, depending on the manufacturer, not all strings will contain valid information.


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