@klaus2008

Swell idea, Klaus, thanks.
In my case, your first command gives me a 650k file.

For a shorter 'hardware-short.txt', I put
hwinfo --short > /home/knoppix/hardware-short.txt
in my home directory. A 4k answer.

Then I view this with /System Tools/Log File Viewer,
adding this as a permanent choice on its menu on first viewing.

This makes very good use of an otherwise under-worked
Log File Viewer.