Difference between pages "Dmidecode" and "Alias"

Revision as of 03:44, 23 January 2012

An alias is a string that stands for a command. For example you can define "greet" to be an alias for "echo 'hello world'" like this:

# alias greet="echo 'hello world'"
# greet
hello world

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-<tt>'''dmidecode'''</tt> is a [[command]] for displaying BIOS hardware information.
+An alias is a string that stands for a command. For example you can define "greet" to be an alias for "echo 'hello world'" like this:
+ # alias greet="echo 'hello world'"
-When working remotely with several computers, you sometimes want to verify that you are on the right iron. For that, the program dmidecode exists - just start it by typing <tt>dmidecode</tt>.
+ # greet
-You get all information about the computer that the vendor put into the BIOS. There are different paragraphs ("handles"), for example like that:
+ hello world
-     Handle 0x0100
-           DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
-           System Information
-                  Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
-                  Product Name: Dimension 4600i
-                  Version: Not Specified
-                  Serial Number: 664S31J
-                  UUID: 44454C4C-3600-1034-8053-B6C04F33314A
-                  Wake-up Type: APM Timer
-[[Category:Command]]