OSX Hardware Info

system_profiler_output.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Pull basic hardware info from system profiler and copy to clipboard
#
require 'open3'

hardware = {
  model_identifer: 'Model Identifier',
  model_name: 'Model Name',
  sys_serial: 'Serial Number \(system\)',
  hw_uuid: 'Hardware UUID',
  cpu_name: 'Processor Name',
  cpu_speed: 'Processor Speed',
  cpu_cores: 'Total Number of Cores'
}
captured_stdout = ''
Open3.popen3('system_profiler', 'SPHardwareDataType') do |stdin , stdout, stderr, thread|
  captured_stdout = stdout.read
end

result = {}
hardware.each_key do |k|
  begin
    result[k] =  captured_stdout[/.*#{hardware[k]}: (.*)\n/,1].chomp
  rescue NoMethodError
    result[k] = "Unknown"
  end
end

tsv = result.each_key.map {|m| "#{result[m]}" }.join("\t")
IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w') {|p| p << tsv }

puts "The system data has been copied to your clipboard."
puts "Now paste this into the sheet (⌘ + v)"