Is there a command I can use just to get the hard disk temperature in the terminal?
Is this possible without a third party app?
MacOS – Get disk temperature in terminal
macostemperatureterminal
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Option #1) you may consider using inbuilt utility powermetrics to get the cpu and gpu temperature and lot more other details.
To get CPU temperature:
sudo powermetrics --samplers smc |grep -i "CPU die temperature"
To get GPU temperature:
sudo powermetrics --samplers smc |grep -i "GPU die temperature"
To get lot more details:
sudo powermetrics
This has been tested on macbook pro with macOS mojave.
Option #2) Install Intel® Power Gadget officially provided by Intel from here
Intel® Power Gadget and then launch Intel Power Gadget from the launchpad.
Result Screen:
The tags name are in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.list.
You can read it with
defaults read com.apple.finder.plist ViewSettingsDictionary
It will need some parsing to be a bit clearer :
defaults read com.apple.finder.plist ViewSettingsDictionary |
awk 'NR%12==2'| grep -o '".*"' | sed 's/^.\(.*\).\{18\}$/\1/'
Other possibility is parsing the plist as xml. To do that you'll need to first convert the plist from binary to xml using.
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
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Best Answer
Unfortunately you won't be able to do this without a third party app. However, if you're happy to use a third party software it is possible to get the temperature in terminal.
You need to use temperature monitor, which is a free application and provides a command line option. The ins and outs of using the software may be a bit much to go into here, but you can find all the instructions here.