CPUINFO2CPUID(1)

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💖 CPUINFO2CPUID(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to cpuinfo2cpuid — it's a lil manual page (section 1, the "user commands" shelf, iykyk) and honestly it's giving humble-but-iconic. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

cpuinfo2cpuid — literally the whole name, that's it, that's the girl 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cpuinfo2cpuid

or

cpuinfo2cpuid -help

or

cpuinfo2cpuid -vendor=<GenuineIntel|AuthenticAMD> -family=<num>
-model=<num> -stepping=<num>

like, three whole moods. pick your fighter 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: cpuinfo2cpuid is sitting there expecting /proc/cpuinfo data to arrive on stdin, and it converts that into a cpuid-like HEX data structure. why? because that structure is suitable as the input for the cpuid -f <file> utility. it's a glow-up pipeline, no cap ✨

or — plot twist — you can just specify the CPU vendor, family, model and stepping on the command line instead. your call, main character 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -help — shows a brief help message. short, sweet, helpful 🎀
  • -vendor — the CPU vendor. can be either GenuineIntel or AuthenticAMD, no in-between, we don't do ambiguous here 👑
  • -family — CPU family, written in decimal notation.
  • -model — CPU model, also in decimal notation.
  • -stepping — CPU stepping, yep, decimal notation again.
  • -help — shows a brief help message. yes bestie, it's listed twice in the original and I'm not about to erase her. she said it twice, it stays twice 💀💖

✨ LIMITATIONS ✨

ngl, right now only Intel & AMD cpuinfo data are supported. that's the whole limitation, at the moment. everything else is just... not invited to the party yet 🫶

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

the classic pipe moment:

cpuinfo2cpuid < /proc/cpuinfo | cpuid -f - | grep '(synth)'

and then — Specifying CPU vendor, family, model and stepping on command line:

cpuinfo2cpuid.pl -vendor=GenuineIntel -family=6 -model=58 -stepping=9 |
cpuid -f - | grep '(synth)'

(that second one says cpuinfo2cpuid.pl, exactly like that, don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 😭)

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Todd Allen <cpuid@etallen.com>, Jirka Hladky <jhladky@gmail.com> — absolute legends, we stan 💜

okay and for the cute sign-off: this page is rockin' the 20250316 build stamp with a 2025-03-29 date, and it lives in the CPUINFO2CPUID(1) manual — so yeah, that's the whole page. slay, read it, run it, hydrate 💅✨🦋

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