Get the CPU info of a machine running on CentOS using cat

To quickly retrieve the CPU information of a machine that is running on CentOS (or a similar flavor of linux) you can read off of the /proc/cpuinfo file using the cat command.

Example:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 58
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
stepping	    : 9
cpu MHz         : 3400.157
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr 
bogomips        : 6800.31
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual