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I discovered that system_profiler on 10.3 has no detailLevel -3, but you can specify only the datatypes you're interested in which might also be quicker:
Panther users could then run this via cron.
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We've used a similar sort of home-grown tracker for a few years now. I haven't had the chance yet to compare the author's solution to ours, but I can report that our method for finding the serial number is faster than either the original code, or your improved version:
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Nice one!
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Indeed there is. This is actually a version 2 of my script. The first was much smaller than this, so this is a huge improvement over it. I know there is a lot more that could be done to it.
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That is a lot quicker! You can make it even faster by quitting awk when you find the serial number. On my mac ioreg -c 'IOPlatformExpertDevice' prints 407 lines of text, and the serial number is at the top in line 11 (profiling with time utility):
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