How to obtain Mac System Information via the Terminal

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Knowing what’s inside your computer is important, especially when you’re troubleshooting a problem.

Sure, you can go to   > About This Mac for that information.  But what if you’re in the Terminal and need that information in a hurry?

No problem.  At the command prompt, issue the command:

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType SPHardwareDataType

That will show you all of the hardware information about your Mac.

That’s it.

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