zFetch
Lightweight system information fetcher for Linux.
zFetch is a lightweight system information fetcher for Linux written in C99. Unlike other system fetchers, this tool focuses on providing a simple, easy-to-remember interface and configuration syntax, extremely fast startup and a reasonable amount of core features.
Installation
zFetch consists on a single source file which can be compiled with any modern C
compiler (Clang/GCC) on a Linux-based system. In order to build it, you can just run
gcc zfetch.c -o zfetch or use the following Makefile rule:
$ make clean all
rm -f *.o *.a zfetch
clang -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic-errors -Wwrite-strings -std=c99 -O3 zfetch.c -o zfetch
In both cases, you will get a binary file named zfetch that you can move wherever you
want.
Usage
As stated before, I've built zFetch to be extremely simple to use since I believe that system fetchers play a paramount role on providing essential data to whoever has a lot of machines to manage.
In its most basic form, you can just invoke the program without any additional parameter and it will run with all option enabled, that is:
If you instead would like to granularly enable or disable some features, you can do so by creating a configuration file in one of the following paths:
$HOME/.zfetch.conf;$HOME/.config/zfetch/conf(this takes precedence).
Inside it, you can specify which option to enable and which one to disable:
HOST = 1
OS = 0
UPTIME = 1
CPU = 1
MEMORY = 1
DISK = 1
IP = 1
LOGO = 1
BARS = 0
Any other line will be considered invalid and silently skipped by the builtin parser.
To retrieve which options are currently enabled, you can run the program with the -s flag, that is:
$ ./zfetch --list-opts # or -s
HOST : ON
OS : OFF
UPTIME : ON
CPU : ON
MEMORY : ON
DISK : ON
IP : ON
LOGO : ON
BARS : OFF
You can also dynamically specify a different path by using the -c CLI argument:
$ ./zfetch -c $PWD/config -s
Using custom config file: '/home/marco/Projects/zfetch/config'
HOST : OFF
OS : OFF
UPTIME : OFF
CPU : OFF
MEMORY : ON
DISK : ON
IP : ON
LOGO : OFF
BARS : ON
Finally, you can list all supported distribution, using the --list-logos/-a flag:
$ /zfetch -a
Available logos: alpine, arch, debian, fedora, mint, gentoo, artix, linux, nixos, redhat, slackware, suse, ubuntu.