Mainly hardware related information such as CPU information, Memory (RAM)

what is stored in /proc ?
what is significance of /proc in linux ?

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Answer Posted / hillol nayak

Mainly hardware related information such as CPU
information, Memory (RAM) information stored under /proc
directory

example:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo (show the information of CPU of that
particular hardware)
# cat /proc/meminfo (show the information of Memory i.e.
RAM of that particular hardware)

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