Ba wani sabon abu bane dmidecode kayan aiki ne na layin umarni sanannu ne, cewa zaka iya samun bayanai masu amfani akan kayan aikin ta hanyar samun dama ga wasu teburin bayanai suna kiran DMI (Fayil ɗin Manajan Fayil na Fayil ɗin Desktop) kuma wannan, kamar yadda sunansa ya nuna, ya yanke su don nuna bayanan da ɗan adam zai iya fahimta. Akwai kayan aikin don kowane GNU / Linux distro, kuma yana da sauƙin amfani.
Idan ba kwa son yin amfani da kayan aikin zane kamar Hardinfo ko wasu dokokin makamantansu waɗanda suke jefawa bayanan kayan aiki, dmidecode na iya zama kyakkyawan madadin don samun bayanai game da CPU, RAM memory, serial number, BIOS / UEFI, har ma game da iyakar daidaitawar da kayan aikinmu zasu tallafawa, ma'ana, yawan masu sarrafawa, ƙwaƙwalwar DIMMs, da dai sauransu.
Bari mu gani wasu misalan amfani. Idan kayi amfani da shi yadda yake, ba tare da zabi ba kuma ba tare da samun dama ba, zai nuna maka sigar sigar kuma zata aiko maka da sakon "An hana izinin":
dmidecode
Amma idan kayi amfani dashi tare da gata sakamakon ya sha bamban sosai, yana nuna duk bayanan da ke cikin waɗannan teburin DMI:
sudo dmidecode
Kamar yadda kake gani, bayanin da aka nuna cikakke ne, game da CPU, yawan agogo, RAM, iko, da dai sauransu. Amma idan kuna son samun takamammen bayani, zaku iya yi amfani da ID ko lambar nau'in shigar da tebur don nuna haka kawai. Kuna iya ganin cewa a cikin misalin da ke sama, akwai bangarori a cikin fitarwa tare da nau'in 1, nau'in 2, nau'in 3, ... wannan shine abin da nake nufi da nau'in. Kuma zaka iya amfani da sunan. Misali, idan kanaso samun bayanai daga ma'ajiyar kaya, zaka iya amfani da nau'in 7:
sudo dmidecode -t 7
Idan kayi amfani da kalmomin, zaka iya sauya -t 7 ko –type 7 don -t cache ko –type cache, samun sakamako iri ɗaya. Tabbas zaka iya amfani da wasu kalmomin zuwa samun bayanai daga wasu bangarorin, misali akwatin (chassis), na BIOS (bios), na soket (soket), system (system), memory (memory), dss. Misali:
sudo dmidecode -t memory
Koyaya, idan kun sanya kalmar da babu ita, zai nuna maka jerin ingantattun kalmomi. Misali, idan ka shigar da wadannan, abubuwan da aka fitar zasu zama jerin kalmomin da aka yarda dasu, saboda haka yana iya taimakawa sosai:
sudo dmidecode -t hola