howto determine processor characteristics from cli

[Cole Tuininga]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:44 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> I've got a Dell Optiplex 745 that I'm trying to figure out if it is
> worth adding more memory to it.  I'd like to find out what
> processor/speed/cache it has.  Is there a simple way to get this?  I
> would imagine it is all contained in the kernel startup log?  dmesg |
> grep (something) ?  Or is there a different way?

cat /proc/cpuinfo

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