coffeetch

☕ coffeetch: a minimal CLI system information tool written in C.

coffeetch is a minimal CLI system information tool written in C.

It displays the username and hostname, OS, kernel, machine model, CPU, RAM, shell, number of packages installed, and uptime information.

If you want your distro to be supported by coffeetch, open an issue.

If there is some incorrect system information shown in coffeetch, open an issue.

Configuration

Your distro may or may not come with a C compiler called GCC, which is required to build coffeetch. You can check if you have it by running gcc --version in a terminal. If it outputs GCC version information, you can skip to installing coffeetch. If not, follow the instructions to install the compiler.

If you do not have a compiler:

Steps	Commands
Download compiler (Debian/Ubuntu)	$sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential
Download compiler (Arch)	$sudo pacman -Sy && sudo pacman -S base-devel

Install:

Steps	Commands
Download coffeetch	$ git clone https://github.com/clieg/coffeetch
Go to coffeetch directory	$ cd coffeetch
Compile coffeetch	$ make
Install coffeetch	$make install
Run coffeetch	$ coffeetch

Uninstall:

Steps	Commands
Go to coffeetch directory	$ cd coffeetch
Uninstall coffeetch	$ make uninstall

Author

Copyright (c) 2020 Clint

License

This programme is provided under the GPL-3.0 License. See LICENSE for more details.

Credits

pfetch: Tux ASCII art

• coffeetch shares zero code with pfetch.
• coffeetch is written in C, whilst pfetch is written in Shell.
• Only the Tux ASCII art was used.