How can I find out the total physical memory (RAM) of my linux box suitable to be parsed by a shell script?

Question

I\'m typing a shell script to find out the total physical memory in some RHEL linux boxes.

First of all I want to stress that I\'m interested in the total ph

Answer 1

dmidecode -t 17 | grep  Size:

Adding all above values displayed after "Size: " will give exact total physical size of all RAM sticks in server.