Set mac serial number as variable in terminal

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I need to create a shell script that will change the mac's computer name to its serial number.

ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber <----will give me the serial

scutil --set ComputerName Serial_Num<----will change the computer name

so is there a way to set the serial number as a variable?

Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Dec 1, 2011 1:14 PM

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Answer 1

The following is a bit faster producing the serial number->

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | sed '/^ *Serial Number (system):*/!d;s###;s/ //'

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Answer 2

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In bash,

serial="$(ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber | sed -e 's/.*\"$.*$\"/\1/')"

Update:

I had an extra space after the equal but couldn't edit it in time due to a power failure I just had.

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