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free
free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel. The information is gathered by parsing /proc/meminfo.
List of commands for free:
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free:tldr:bf2df free: Display memory in Bytes/KB/MB/GB.$ free -${select}try on your machineexplain this command
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free:tldr:cd445 free: Refresh the output every 2 seconds.$ free -s ${2}try on your machineexplain this command
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free:tldr:e31da free: Display memory in human-readable units.$ free -htry on your machineexplain this command
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system:memory:usage Displays the memory usage in megabytes (MB)$ free -mtry on your machineexplain this command