Gathering information through the GUI option “About this Mac” can be annoying and not reveal all the information you wanted. Fortunately, there is an existing command line that can provide what you are looking for.
Terminal can be launched through :
Terminal is Mac OS X way into the command line world. It is designed for you to typing in specific commands that you would not be able to do otherwise. This is great for customizing your Mac and unveiling hidden features. It is also a good way to destroy you system because you screwed something up. How many times did you have something running on your Mac and you wanted to make.
Go > Utilities > Terminal
Then several commands exist to either gather full system information or a specific piece of hardware. Let say you want to output your full system information, simply enter this command :
If you want to only sort the information regarding the CPU :
Sysctl can also give you some useful information that “system profiler” can’t provide for CPU info :
Mac Commands For Terminal
Unix Terminal Commands Mac Os X