Overview

Yara Fetch is a fast, lightweight system information display tool written entirely in pure Bash — inspired by fastfetch and neofetch. It prints a distro-specific ASCII logo alongside a neatly sectioned readout of your system, desktop, hardware, and network information — all from a single script with no compiled binaries required.

Yara Fetch is Version 2.0, released under the MIT License, and built and maintained by Saman Udayanga Wijesinghe as part of the Yara Utility Suite.

Preview

  Yarafetch v2.0  ·  by Saman Wijesinghe
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           /\            mbc-saman@archlinux
          /  \           ═══════════════════
         /\   \
        /  \   \          ── System ──────────────────────────
       /    \   \           OS               Arch Linux
      /  /\  \   \          Kernel           6.19.11-arch1-1 (x86_64)
     /  /  \  \   \         Uptime           6h 51m
    /  /    \  \   \        Packages         1091 (pacman)
   /  / /\   \  \   \       Shell            bash 5.3.9
  /  / /  \   \  \   \
 /  /_/____\___\__\   \    ── Desktop ─────────────────────────
/__/__________________\__\   DE               KDE Plasma 6.6.4
                             WM               KWin (wayland)
  ──  A R C H  L I N U X  ──  Theme            Breeze
                             Icons            breeze-dark
                             Font             Noto Sans 10
                             Cursor           breeze_cursors
                             Terminal         konsole
                             Term Font        Hack Nerd Font 12
                             Displays         1920x1080@60Hz,1920x1080@60Hz

                            ── Hardware ────────────────────────
                             CPU              Intel Core i5-8250U  ·  4C / 8T  ·  2.50 GHz
                             CPU Usage        ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 42%
                             CPU Temp         57.0°C
                             GPU              Intel UHD Graphics 620
                             GPU 2            NVIDIA GeForce MX130
                             Memory           4.7GB / 7.7GB (60%)
                             Mem Usage        ████████████░░░░░░░░ 60%
                             Swap             551MB / 14GB (3%)
                             Disk (/)         42G / 119G (36%)

                            ── Network ─────────────────────────
                             Local IP         192.168.0.190 (wlan0)
                             Battery          100%  ✔  Full

                             ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██  ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
                             ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██  ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██

Key Features

  • Distro ASCII logos — per-distro logos with 3-shade gradient (dim → normal → bold) for 12 distributions and a generic fallback
  • Sectioned layout — System, Desktop, Hardware, and Network in a clean columnar display
  • Gradient progress bars — live CPU usage, memory, and swap bars
  • 16-color terminal palette — 8 standard + 8 bright colors shown at the bottom of the output
  • Auto-detection — detects package manager, display server (X11/Wayland), DE, and WM automatically
  • No external dependencies — only standard Linux tools: bash, awk, sed, ps, ip, df, lspci
  • Optional sensors support — CPU temperature via lm_sensors or hwmon fallback

Displayed Information

System

Field Description
OS Distribution name and version
Kernel Linux kernel version and architecture
Uptime Time since last boot (days, hours, minutes)
Packages Installed package count with package manager name
Shell Shell name and version

Desktop

Field Description
DE Desktop environment and version (Plasma, GNOME, Xfce…)
WM Window manager and session type (X11/Wayland)
Theme GTK or KDE color scheme
Icons Icon theme name
Font System UI font
Cursor Cursor theme
Terminal Detected terminal emulator
Term Font Terminal font (from Konsole, Alacritty, Kitty configs)
Displays Active monitor resolutions and refresh rates

Hardware

Field Description
CPU Model, core/thread count, average frequency
CPU Usage Live usage % with gradient bar (sampled over 250 ms)
CPU Temp Package temperature from sensors or hwmon
GPU Primary GPU (and GPU 2 if a second card is present)
Memory Used / total RAM with percentage and gradient bar
Swap Used / total swap (bar shown only when swap is in use)
Disk (/) Used / total for the root filesystem

Network

Field Description
Local IP Primary LAN IP address and network interface
Battery Charge percentage and status (Full / Charging / Discharging)

Supported Distributions

Yara Fetch ships a custom ASCII logo for these distributions. All others fall back to a generic Yarafetch box logo.

Distribution Logo Color
Arch Linux Cyan
Ubuntu Yellow
Debian Red
Fedora Blue
Manjaro Green
NixOS Blue
Void Linux Green
openSUSE Green
Gentoo Magenta
Linux Mint Green
Pop!_OS Cyan
EndeavourOS Magenta

Requirements

Required

Tool Purpose
bash >= 4.0 Script runtime
awk Text processing
sed Text processing
ps Process detection
ip Network info
df Disk usage
lspci GPU detection
numfmt Human-readable sizes (part of coreutils)

Optional (enhances output)

Tool Purpose Install
sensors CPU temperature lm_sensors
kscreen-doctor Wayland display resolution (KDE) kscreen
wlr-randr Wayland display resolution (wlroots) wlr-randr
xrandr X11 display resolution xorg-xrandr
xprop X11 WM detection xorg-xprop

Install optional tools

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S lm_sensors kscreen xorg-xrandr xorg-xprop

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt install lm-sensors x11-xserver-utils x11-utils

Fedora

sudo dnf install lm_sensors xrandr xprop

Installation

Quick run (no install)

bash yarafetch.sh

Install system-wide

sudo ./install.sh

This copies yarafetch.sh to /usr/local/bin/yarafetch so you can run it from anywhere:

yarafetch

Manual install

chmod +x yarafetch.sh
sudo cp yarafetch.sh /usr/local/bin/yarafetch

Uninstall

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/yarafetch

Usage

yarafetch

No arguments or flags needed — just run it and it will auto-detect everything.

Get Yara Fetch

Resource Link
GitLab Repository gitlab.com/samanscode/yara-fetch
Download ZIP yara-fetch-main.zip

The Yara Utility Suite

Yara Fetch is part of the Yara Utility Suite — a collection of lightweight, terminal-focused tools built and maintained by Saman Udayanga Wijesinghe.

License

Yara Fetch is released under the MIT License. © 2025 Saman Udayanga Wijesinghe