I'm using High Sierra. I often have to copy & paste system information in a email or in a forum message. For this reason, I'd like a simple and easy way to get info on my operating system and my hardware at the command line. Currently I use
$ system_profiler > foo.txt
and then I search into foo.txt
for the information I need. However, the process is incredibly slow, and not very automatic. Is there a better way? I only need OS, SDD/RAM & chipset info – I couldn't care less about sound or Firewalls, for example.
Best Answer
You can check data types by listing them with
system_profiler -listDataTypes
and then use them to get specific info. For example to get info about chipset & RAM runsystem_profiler SPHardwareDataType
.