I read some docs but I have no Mac boxes to test.

From the docs I build this command

ioreg -c IOPlatformExpertDevice -n IOPlatformUUID

Questions:

1. Is the above command correct? I am not sure: should be -n or -k to specify the property name ?

2. Does it require "administrator" privileges or can a normal user account run it?

Thanks

I read some docs but I have no Mac boxes to test.

From the docs I build this command

ioreg -c IOPlatformExpertDevice -n IOPlatformUUID

Questions:

1. Is the above command correct? I am not sure: should be -n or -k to specify the property name ?

2. Does it require "administrator" privileges or can a normal user account run it?

Thanks

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1 Answer 1

You should use -k instead of -n.
The -k flag filters the output to show only entries that have the specified property key.

The command must be :

ioreg -c IOPlatformExpertDevice -k IOPlatformUUID