tldr/pages/osx/system_profiler.md

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system_profiler

Report system hardware and software configuration. More information: https://ss64.com/osx/system_profiler.html.

  • 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):

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType

  • Print the system serial number:

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