Driver listing

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#1

Hi Folks,

a simply Yes or No Question:

Is it possible to list all the used drivers in a system enviroment with applescript?

Thanks for your answers…

Stefan

#2

HI Folks,

the following is putting the HW Information into a file on the desktop:


do shell script "/usr/sbin/system_profiler > " & POSIX path of (path to desktop as text) & tName & ".profile.txt"

I have seen in System Profiler that on Contents Software / Extensions all Drivers are listed… Has
anybody a clue how to handle this with applescript?

Thanks for your help!

Stefan

#3

You are handling it with an AppleScript. Do you mean to extract the relevant data from the return?

If you mean without a shell script, then the System Profiler is scriptable (but much slower).

#4

Hi Stefan,

this gives you a list of the paths of all extensions:

do shell script "system_profiler SPExtensionsDataType | awk '/ Location: / {print $2}'"
#5

Hi Adam,

of course you are right - I am using applescript - I want to script SystemProfiler but I am not able to work with the dictionary…

To Stefan:

thanks for your tipp - I will try to work with it…

Stefan

#6

This is slow, but it does get a list of your kext file data:

tell application "System Profiler" to set SP to system profile
set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "Extensions:"
set E to text item 2 of SP
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "Fonts:"
set K to text item 1 of E
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid

They’re all kept in /System/Library/Extensions/, but that includes lots of kexts that are not device drivers.