-version

Displays the version of lshw and exits.

-help

Displays the available command line options and quits.

-X

Launch the X11 GUI (if available).

-html

Outputs the device tree as an HTML page.

-xml

Outputs the device tree as an XML tree.

-json

Outputs the device tree as a JSON object (JavaScript Object Notation).

-short

Outputs the device tree showing hardware paths, very much like the output of HP-UX's ioscan.

-businfo

Outputs the device list showing bus information, detailing SCSI, USB, IDE and PCI addresses.

-dump

Dump collected information into a file (SQLite database).

-class

Only show the given class of hardware. class can be found using lshw -short or lshw -businfo.

-C

Alias for -class class.

-disable

Enables or disables a test. test can be dmi (for DMI/SMBIOS extensions), device-tree (for OpenFirmware device tree), spd (formemory Serial Presence Detect), memory (for memory-size guessing heuristics), cpuinfo (for kernel-reported CPU detection),cpuid (for CPU detection), pci (for PCI/AGP access), isapnp (for ISA PnP extensions), pcmcia (for PCMCIA/PCCARD), ide (forIDE/ATAPI), usb (for USB devices),scsi (for SCSI) or network (for network interfaces detection).

-quiet

Don't display status.

-sanitize

Remove potentially sensitive information from output (IP addresses, serial numbers, etc.).

-numeric

Also display numeric IDs (for PCI and USB devices).BUGSlshw currently does not detect Firewire(IEEE1394) devices.Not all architectures supported by GNU/Linux are fully supported (e.g. CPU detection)."Virtual" SCSI interfaces used for SCSI emulation over IDE are not reported correctly yet.NOTESlshw must be run as super user or it will only report partial information.FILES/usr/local/share/pci.ids/usr/share/pci.ids/etc/pci.ids/usr/share/hwdata/pci.idsA list of all known PCI ID's (vendors, devices, classes and subclasses)./proc/bus/pci/*Used to access the configuration of installed PCI busses and devices./proc/ide/*Used to access the configuration of installed IDE busses and devices./proc/scsi/*, /dev/sg*Used to access the configuration of installed SCSI devices./dev/cpu/*/cpuidUsed on x86 platforms to access CPU-specific configuration./proc/device-tree/*Used on PowerPC platforms to access OpenFirmware configuration./proc/bus/usb/*Used to access the configuration of installed USB busses and devices./sys/* Used on 2.6 kernels to access hardware/driver configuration information.EXAMPLESlshw -shortLists hardware in a compact format.lshw -class disk -class storageLists all disks and storage controllers in the system.lshw -html -class networkLists all network interfaces in HTML.lshw -disable dmiDon't use DMI to detect hardware.