Information utilities

This page focuses on only tasks that involve retrieving information about the current state of a system, rather than tasks that involve changing the state of the system. This is because the scope of the former is inherently limited (there's only one state right now), while the latter is infinite (the number of potential future states is unlimited).

most Unix Solaris AIX Linux BSD Windows OS X
hardware uname
 prtconf
psrinfo
sysdef
 lsattr -El sys0
lsdev
lsattr -El <device>
more 		lshw
hardinfo
hwinfo
lspci
lsusb
lspnp
lsmod
cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/meminfo 		sysctl -a msinfo32
SIV (system information viewer)
pc wizard 2008
usbview usbdeview
dxdiag, gpu caps viewer
driverview 		 
disk drives,
partitions 		lscfg -v fdisk -l
hdparm -i
 diskmgmt.msc
OS version uname -r showrev
/etc/release
(versions) 		oslevel /etc/release equivalent msinfo32
ver
(versions)
kernel state data dmesg
fuser
ps
top
io/net/nfs/vm
   stat
 proc tools
sar
sysdef
rpcinfo
 topas
   fstat
 sysinternals(procexp,handle,tcpview)
currports
tasklist 		 
system crash         WinDbg
drwtsn32 		 
exe/lib image nm dump
elfdump 		dump objdump
readelf 		link /dump
depends 		 
trace API calls LD_PRELOAD dtrace
truss
gcore
 truss
strace 		strace
ltrace 		ktrace procmon
rohitab
spystudio
DLL injection
dtrace
sourceless debug         ollydbg
cheat engine
disassemblers
 
network sniffing
(driver) 		libpcap winpcap
netmon driver 		libpcap
packet analysis wireshark
tcpdump 		wireshark
windump 		wireshark
tcpdump
GUI internals
(for GUI automation) 		list         winspector
spy++
winid
 
 
fark

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