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I am new to Mac OS X and X code and want to know how to find the MAC address of a machine programmatically in OS X.

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  • Note that most current Macs will have multiple MAC addresses (one or more Ethernet plus Wi-Fi and possibly other interfaces too). – Paul R Aug 09 '10 at 19:13

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There's a sample from the Mac OS X Reference Library that gets the MAC address of the primary, built-in interface from the I/O Registry. It also includes an Xcode project.

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See: How can I programmatically get the MAC address of an iphone. Should work (although originally asked for iPhone).

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  • yes..I have gone through that post, but will it work for iMac and MacBooks too? Also if I am not wrong it would be a command line application, right? Thank you. – Aniket Aug 09 '10 at 18:55