CINFO(1)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cinfo — system information utility

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cinfo [-a] [-c] [-d] [-i]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

cinfo is a fast and minimal system information tool for linux-based operating systems. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it tells you about your system and it does it quickly. no bloat, no drama, main character energy only 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

so if you don't give it any settings at all, it just starts the colored version by default. but if the environment variable NO_COLOR is set, it starts the plain ascii version instead. the environment is literally in charge here, periodt.

• -a — start plain ascii version. monochrome moment, we respect it.
• -c — start colored version. the sparkle era ✨
• -d — delete the cached files defined in the config. it's giving spring cleaning 🧹
• -i — displays information about execution times of the individual functions for optimization and the version number of the tool. yes she's showing you her receipts 💅

🧵 CUSTOMIZATION 🧵

cinfo can be customized by creating/editing a custom config.h and (re-)compiling the source code. so like, you're not editing a config file at runtime, you're literally rebuilding the whole thing. it's giving artisanal. 🎀

• PKGS* — values to configure package manager counting.

example values for some distros:

Distro      PKGS_CMD                                            PKGS_DESC
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Arch        ls -p /var/lib/pacman/local | grep -c /             [pacman]
Red Hat     rpm -qa | wc -l                                     [rpm]
Red Hat     dnf list installed | wc -l                          [dnf]
Red Hat     yum list installed | wc -l                          [yum]
Debian      dpkg -l | grep -c `^ii'                             [apt]
Gentoo      qlist -I | wc -l                                    [portage]

⚠️ the result of the shell command in PKGS_CMD must be an integer! like, an actual number. if it spits out anything else it's gonna be a mess, no cap.

• CPU* — values to configure cpu information.
• MEMORY* — values to configure memory information.

💜 MEMORY_METHOD 💜

Value   Calculation                              Comparable
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  0     total - available                        htop = 3.1.0, btop, polybar
  1     total + shared - free - buffer -         htop < 3.1.0, neofetch
        cached
  2     total - free - buffer - cached           htop > 3.1.0, free

🦋 MEMORY_UNIT 🦋

Value   Condition           Description
───────────────────────────────────────────────
auto    total => 1024 MiB   Displays result in
                            Gibibyte
        total < 1024 MiB    Displays result in
                            Mebibyte
GiB                         Displays result in
                            Gibibyte
MiB                         Displays result in
                            Mebibyte

• SHELL* — values to configure shell information.
• INFO* — values to configure information in general.
• LABEL* — values to configure labels for ascii and color table.
• COLOR* — values to configure color table.
• ASCII* — values to configure ascii table.
• CACHE* — values to configure the cache paths.

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

look at her go, five whole moods:

cinfo
cinfo -a
cinfo -c
cinfo -d
cinfo -i

💀 BUGS 💀

found something cursed? see GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mrdotx/cinfo/issues — go tell them, they wanna know fr fr 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

cinfo was written by mrdotx <klassiker@gmx.de> — icon, legend, the moment 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

htop(1), free(1), neofetch(1), polybar(1)

iykyk 👀

📜 LICENSE 📜

see the LICENSE.md file for the terms of redistribution.

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