terminal command to show ...

You can probably parse what you need from the output of "system_profiler" (a command line version of the GUI "System Profiler").

For example, this will show you # of CPUs:

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType

and this will show you info on your graphics card:

system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType

See "man system_profiler" for more info.

Steve

sed - simple extraction device. 😉

Number of CPUs:
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | sed -n 's/^ *Number Of CPUs: \([0-9]\)$/\1/p'

Display Card Type:
system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | sed -n '3s/ (.\):/\1/p'

We have the first one:

<pre>
numcpu () {
system_profiler -detailLevel -2 | grep "Number Of CPUs" | awk '{print $4}'
}
</pre>

When I wake up, I will try the second.

<pre>
vcard () {
system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | head -n 3 | tail -n 1 | cut -f 1 -d ":"
}
</pre>

It looks un-robust but it worked on 4 computers I tested.

If you use the html tags
<pre>
[pre>foo four spaces[/pre>
</pre>
it should do the trick.