cpufetch - awesome CPU architecture info tool for Linux/macOS - nixCraft

Typically we use the lscpu command or /proc/cpuinfo command on Linux to check CPU information. I recently found another simplistic yet fancier CPU architecture fetching tool inspired by neofetch, pfetch or screenfetch. Let us see how to install cpufetch on Linux, macOS, Android, and Windows to fetch CPU details.

cpufetch is awesome CPU architecture info fetching tool for Linux and macOS

We can build and install cpufetch from source on Linux or macOS using the following commands. First clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/Dr-Noob/cpufetch
Now build it:
cd cpufetch && make
Install it
make install
Here is what we see:

install -Dm755 "cpufetch"   "/usr/bin/cpufetch"
install -Dm644 "LICENSE"    "/usr/share/licenses/cpufetch-git/LICENSE"
install -Dm644 "cpufetch.8" "/usr/share/man/man8/cpufetch.8.gz"

Installing cpufetch on Arch Linux using AUR

Try the following commands:

# AUR not ready? Set up AUR and we need
# packages:
# sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cpufetch-git.git
cd cpufetch-git/
less PKGBUILD
makepkg -si

Android

First install termux application. Next open termux and then run the following commands:
pkg install -y git make clang
Build from source normally on your Android device:
git clone https://github.com/Dr-Noob/cpufetch
cd cpufetch
make
make install

How to use cpufetch

The syntax is:
cpufetch
cpufetch [option]

Options

The default style is fancy. But we can switch to retro or legacy style as follows:
cpufetch -s retro
cpufetch -s legacy
We can use bash for loop as follows to test styles:

for s in fancy retro legacy
do
    clear
    cpufetch -s "$s"
    sleep 3
done

Summing up

Overall it is one of those small and nicely written tools. I hope you enjoy it as I did. Checkout source code at Github.

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• Skye Romero Apr 29, 2021 @ 22:56

  Nice tools. I love simple and easy to use CLI software.

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