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Getting Mac serial number


staxas
May 17, 2011 | 8:10 am

I am writing licensing code and am trying to find a way to get the unique mac serial out of the shell object. Only thing is, shell doesn’t accept lines like this:

ioreg -l | awk ‘/IOPlatformSerialNumber/ { split($0, line, """); printf("%sn", line[4]); }’

I understand something can be done with sprintf, but I have no knowledge of scripting.

Anyone have any tips?


Fratzen
May 17, 2011 | 9:20 am

send this to shell works for me:
ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber

print: " | "IOPlatformSerialNumber" = "***********""

regexp this answer and it’s done


staxas
May 17, 2011 | 9:54 am

Thanks, that’s more than I got in the first place!

I’m not getting the hang of regexp. How can you use it to strip the number from this string?


staxas
May 17, 2011 | 10:02 am

Does the serial always start with a W?


Ad.
May 17, 2011 | 12:45 pm

here’s:

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