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April 11, 2005

Using dmesg to Collect Hardware Information

Filed under: Linux

dmesg is a record of everything detected by the kernel.

To view all dmesg output, use:
$ dmesg | less

You can also filter the output of dmesg to find specific devices.

For example, to list all USB devices, use:
$ dmesg | grep -i usb

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