Access 'About this Mac' before creating a user I've wiped and reinstalled macOS in order to sell a 2017 MacBook Pro. Of course, I forgot to take a screenshot of 'About This Mac' to get all the specifics (all I need is the CPU variant).
I've booted into Recovery Mode to access terminal and try a host of variations on system_profiler. None of them work.
I don't want to have to create a user just to view my specs and then have to wipe and reinstall macOS again.
Does anyone have a working 2020 method for accessing system information from the terminal before creating a user?
Use sysctl command to get the CPU brand string.
% sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-700K CPU @ 4.20GHz