Mac OSX Terminal – Get Mac Serial Number

Posted on By David Kittell

A quick and easy way to get your serial number

# Get Serial Number
sSerialNumber=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType |grep "Serial Number (system)" |awk '{print $4}'  | cut -d/ -f1)
echo $sSerialNumber
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