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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Detect active usb device used by app Post 303037959 by Neo on Monday 19th of August 2019 11:27:10 PM

08-20-2019

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You can get this information with the macOS command:

Code:

system_profiler

See summary man page here:

https://www.unix.com/man-page/mojave/8/system_profiler/

Code:

root#  system_profiler -usage
Usage: system_profiler [-listDataTypes]
       system_profiler [-xml] [-timeout n] [-detailLevel n]
       system_profiler [-xml] [-timeout n] [dataType1 ... dataTypeN]

  -detailLevel n    specifies the level of detail for the report
                      mini = short report (contains no identifying or personal information)
                      basic = basic hardware and network information
                      full = all available information

  -listDataTypes    lists all the available datatypes

  -xml              generates xml output instead of plain text
                    if redirected to a file with the extension ".spx"
                    the file can be opened in System Profiler.app

  -timeout          specifies the maximum time to spend gathering information
                    the default is 180 seconds, 0 means no timeout

  Redirect stderr to /dev/null to suppress progress and error messages.

Examples:

  system_profiler
     Generates a text report with the standard detail level.

  system_profiler -detailLevel mini
     Generates a short report without identifying/personal information.

  system_profiler -listDataTypes
     Shows a list of the available data types.

  system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType SPNetworkDataType
     Generates a text report containing only software and network data.

  system_profiler -xml >MySystem.spx
     Creates a XML file which can be opened by System Profiler.app

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SND_UAUDIO(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 					     SND_UAUDIO(4)

NAME

     snd_uaudio -- USB audio device driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device sound
	   device usb
	   device snd_uaudio

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   snd_uaudio_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The snd_uaudio driver provides support for USB audio class devices.

     A USB audio device consists of a number of components: input terminals (e.g. USB digital input), output terminals (e.g. speakers), and a num-
     ber of units in between (e.g. volume control).

     Refer to the 'USB Audio Class Specification' for more information.

SEE ALSO

     sound(4), usb(4)

     USB Audio Class Specifications, http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/.

HISTORY

     The snd_uaudio driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.7.

AUTHORS

     This manual page was adopted from NetBSD 1.6 and modified for FreeBSD by Hiten Pandya <hmp@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS

     The PCM framework in FreeBSD, as of this writing, does not handle device un-registrations in a properly abstracted manner, i.e., a detach
     request is refused by the PCM framework if the device is in use.  For USB and supposedly other detach-able busses, it is necessary to allow
     the device un-registration to complete successfully, otherwise the driver leaves wild pointers to invalid data structures and thus leading to
     a panic.

BSD
								 December 15, 2005							       BSD

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