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Usefull commands

General Commands

Prints the current date
date
Raspberry Pi GPIO pin-out information
pinout
Information about the Pi
raspinfo

System Information Commands

Upgrades all of the software packages you have installed
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Opens the configuration settings menu
sudo raspi-config
Network Configuration Details
sudo ifconfig
Shows details about your CPU
cat /proc/cpuinfo

All Raspberry Pi computers report BCM2835, even those with BCM2836, BCM2837 and BCM2711 processors.

Decode the revision code
cat /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model
Display information about the CPU architecture
lscpu
Shows details about your memory
cat /proc/meminfo
Check Raspberry OS Version
cat /proc/version
Shows information about the available disk space
df -h
Shows the temperature of the CPU
vcgencmd measure_temp
Check the status of power output to the USB ports
vcgencmd get_config usb_max_current_enable
Show event happened in the start sequence
dmesg
IP Address of Raspberry Pi
hostname -I
Pre-installed packages
dpkg --get-selections | wc -l