PowerShell for the Mac is currently not ready for prime time. You can play a little with the core cmdlets, but that's it. Vw 02a transmission manual. Of course, this early release also contains bugs. For instance, if you resize the Terminal window, the cursor jumps to somewhere in the middle of the window. Jun 09, 2017 PowerShell commands on Mac and Linux are not case-sensitive, but sometimes the operating system-specific values (e.g. The names of environment variables like PATH) are case-sensitive. Slashes PowerShell on Windows has always allowed forward slashes and backward slashes in paths, so moving to Mac and Linux has minimal issues with the direction.
Recently Microsoft announced that PowerShell has been open sourced, and made generally available on Linux and Mac Os X. It is currently in alpha version available on github.I happen to have a Mac Book Pro available at home.
It has cropped up from time to time that we need to retrieve information, in this example, the MAC address from remotely located workstations.
While, as it goes in the world of system administration, many ways to skin such a cat, I am going to leverage both the power and versatility of Powershell combined with the vast information warehouse that is WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation).
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If your remote computer is a basic configuration then we can start of something simple
In the above example, we are using the gwmi cmdlet (alias of Get-WMIObject and are interchangeable), pointing to a remote workstation with -ComputerName switch, filtered out information requested with the -Class switch, wrapping it all in brackets so we can retrieve just the returned Powershell MACAddress property.
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Hopefully you will be returned a MAC Address.
However, you may find that if the device has multiple network adapters (such as teredo tunnelling for IPv6, hypervisor bridges, VPN TAPs) you are getting more noise than needed:
Never fear though, we have the technology. If you know more information about the network adapter that you want the MAC address from, we can apply filtering to the original query to bring precious to our result.
If you know the IP address of the network adapter:
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There you have it. A quick little one liner that taps into the vast depth of information from the WMI database via Powershell power. It is certainly worth playing around with the properties that the above WMI query can provide in return as the information stored is vast and can lead to endless amounts of utility in your future Powershell magic.