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Re: Computer Serial Number


  • Subject: Re: Computer Serial Number
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:12:10 -0400
  • Thread-topic: Computer Serial Number

Title: Re: Computer Serial Number
On 7/24/08 8:34 PM, "Michael J. Vinca" <email@hidden> wrote:

I was thinking more along the lines of: <http://www.vinca.ws/>
on getSerialNumber()
return word 3 of paragraph 1 of (do shell script "system_profiler | grep 'Serial Number:'")
end getSerialNumber

<http://www.vinca.ws/> But your way doesn't assume that the hardware data shows up first, so it is better. :) Although I think it is a pretty safe assumption in this case.


The short fast way:

set
theSerialNumber to the last word of (do shell script "/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType|grep \"Serial Number\"")

SPHardwareDataType returns less than 20 lines, as in this example from my MBP:

blackbird:~ jwelch$ system_profiler SPHardwareDataType
Hardware:

    Hardware Overview:

      Model Name: MacBook Pro
      Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
      Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
      Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
      Number Of Processors: 1
      Total Number Of Cores: 2
      L2 Cache: 6 MB
      Memory: 4 GB
      Bus Speed: 800 MHz
      Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
      SMC Version: 1.28f1
      Serial Number: W88132ASYP4
      Sudden Motion Sensor:
          State: Enabled


So it’s a bit faster, and there’s no duplicate data to deal with.
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