Re: [dev] cat unique deice identifier e.g. serial number

From: Premysl Hruby <dfenze_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:00 +0100

On 08/02/12 12:50, hiro wrote:
> Anybody know a simple way to get a laptops device's serial number or
> some other unique identifier which won''t identify all other same
> models?
>
> So far I came up with this:
> ( for MA in `ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/modalias`
> do
> cat "$MA";
> done
> ) | sha1sum
>

Btw, why not cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/modalias | sha1sum instead of
for cycle? :-)

-Ph
Received on Wed Feb 08 2012 - 13:39:00 CET