Command to get Model Identifier

[rafperez]

Greetings fellow Mac users.

I know where to find the Model Id, but I want to know the command in Terminal to get the Model Id. Just the Id.

So far I have found the following commands:
system_profiler | grep "Model Id" and sysctl hw.model
But both return more than I want. I just want the command to return "MacBookPro8,2"
if you use the above commands, you'll see that they return:
"ModelIdentifier: MacBookPro8,2" and "hw.model: MacBookPro8,2"

I have something to get just the Serial Number and it works great:
ioreg -l | awk '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/ { split($0, line, "\""); printf("%s\n", line[4]); }'

But since I'm a Mac noob I don't know what I can modify in the ioreg command to get the Model Id. Any assistance would be appreciated!

 

[Bear]

This should do what you want:

ioreg -l | awk '/product-name/ { split($0, line, "\""); printf("%s\n", line[4]); }'

 

[rafperez]

Thanks for your replay Bear.

Awesome sir! exactly what I needed. Being a noob I was all over the place, I was just looking at sed, but I don't think I was in the same ball park. Excellent, thanks again.

 

[pra]

sysctl -n hw.model