sysctl

Created by Cedric Owens (@cedowens)

Description

Gets the macOS hardware information, which can be used to determine whether the target macOS host is running on a physical or virtual machine.

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2023-04-20Discoverybash oneliner sysctl

Paths

  • /usr/sbin/sysctl

Use Cases

Use sysctl to gather macOS hardware info.

sysctl can be used to gather interesting macOS host data, including hardware information, memory size, logical cpu information, etc.

sysctl -n hw.model

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