• Mac OS X,  Mass Deployment

    Command Line System Information

    When you click on About This Mac and then click on More Info… you see the Apple System Profiler.  This tool, dating back to the Classic OS (prehistory so-to-speak) can be used to access a wide variety of information about your system, including installed hardware, software and some settings.  Some of this information can also be obtained through other tools.  For example, the networksetup command can obtain a wide variety of information about various network settings.  But it helps to have one tool to query for any information you may need about a computer (well, much of the information you may need).   While it is fairly straight forward to…