0: device type 1: serial cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i "^Serial" | head -1 | sed "s/[^:]*:[ ]*//" cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i "^Revision" |head -1 | sed "s/[^:]*:[ ]*//" cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i "^Hardware" | head -1 | sed "s/[^:]*:[ ]*//" 2: mac cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address 3: disk 4: additional (hostname) cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname