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sysctl

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

Author: Cedric Owens (@cedowens) Created: 2023-04-20
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Paths

/usr/sbin/sysctl

Example 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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