NAME

system_profiler — reports system hardware and software configuration.

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

system_profiler reports on the hardware and software configuration of the system. It can generate plain text reports or XML reports which can be opened with System Information.app, or JSON reports

Progress and error messages are printed to stderr while actual report data is printed to stdout. Redirect stderr to /dev/null to suppress progress and error messages.

The following options are available:

-xml

Generates a report in XML format. If the XML report is redirected to a file with a ".spx" suffix that file can be opened with System Information.app.

-json

Generates a report in JSON format.

-listDataTypes

Lists the available datatypes.

-detailLevel level

Specifies the level of detail for the report:

mini

report with no personal information

basic

basic hardware and network information

full

all available information

-timeout

Specifies the maximum time to wait in seconds for results. If some information is not available within the specified time limit then an incomplete or partial report will be generated. The default timeout is 180 seconds. Specifying a timeout of 0 means no timeout.

-usage

Prints usage info and examples.

EXAMPLES

system_profiler
Generates a text report with the standard detail level.

system_profiler -detailLevel mini
Generates a short report containing no personal information.

system_profiler -listDataTypes
Shows a list of the available data types.

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType SPNetworkDataType
Generates a text report containing only software and network data.

system_profiler -xml > MyReport.spx
Creates a XML file which can be opened by System Profiler.app

AUTHORS

Apple Inc.