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system_profiler — Report system hardware and software configuration. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-

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Problem

How to use the system_profiler command: Report system hardware and software configuration. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/system_profiler.8.html>.

Solution

system_profiler — Report system hardware and software configuration. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/system_profiler.8.html>.

Display a report with specific details level (mini [no personal information], basic, or full):

system_profiler -detailLevel {{level}}

Display a full system profiler report which can be opened by System Profiler.app:

system_profiler -xml > MyReport.spx

Display a hardware overview (Model, CPU, Memory, Serial, etc) and software data (System, Kernel, Name, Uptime, etc):

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType SPSoftwareDataType

Print the system serial number:

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType|grep "Serial Number (system)" | awk '{ print $4 }'

Code Snippets

Display a report with specific details level (mini [no personal information], basic, or full)

system_profiler -detailLevel {{level}}

Display a full system profiler report which can be opened by `System Profiler.app`

system_profiler -xml > MyReport.spx

Display a hardware overview (Model, CPU, Memory, Serial, etc) and software data (System, Kernel, Name, Uptime, etc)

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType SPSoftwareDataType

Print the system serial number

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType|grep "Serial Number (system)" | awk '{ print $4 }'

Context

tldr-pages: osx/system_profiler

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