Mac hardware and system information retrieval one-liner

• When I use Mac, there are times when I want to get system information and so on by command.
• Also, you may want to use that information in shellscript.
• In this article, we will write commands to obtain hardware and system information from your Mac.

Result

• Here are the results.
• Enter each command based on the information you want to retrieve.

Model Name

# model name
# output : MacBook Pro**

info=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Model Identifier'); echo "${info#*: }"

Processor

# processor
# output : Dual-Core Intel **
info=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Processor Name'); echo "${info#*: }"

Core

# core
# output : 2
info=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Cores'); echo "${info#*: }"

Serial Number

# serial number
# output : *****
info=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Serial Number'); echo "${info#*: }"

UUID

# UUID
# output : *****-*****-****
info=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'UUID'); echo "${info#*: }"

Memory

# memory information
# output : ** GB
info=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Memory'); echo "${info#*: }"

User

# user information
# output : **** *** (*******)
info=$(system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep 'User Name'); echo "${info#*: }"

Supplement

• For ease of use, the fetched content only outputs the results.
• Use shall be in the following format.
  • info=$(system_profiler data-type-name | grep 'field-name'); echo "${info#*: }"
• The above data-type-name and field-names are confirmed by the following command.
  • data-type-name : system_profiler -listDataTypes
  • field-name : system_profiler data-type-name
• Other information that can be obtained with system_profiler can be found here.

Link

• https://ss64.com/osx/system_profiler.html