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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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ifconfig  | grep -A 6 en0 | grep -o ether.* | awk '{print $2}'
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  • The question is tagged Objective-C and asks how to get the MAC address programmatically. Using a shell command does not answer the question being asked. – HangarRash Jun 07 '23 at 14:33
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for macOS 13.2 :

ifconfig en0 | mawk 'NF *= NF==2' FS='^[ \t]*ether ' OFS=

f8:4d:89:1a:73:d9
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  • The question is tagged Objective-C and asks how to get the MAC address programmatically. Using a shell command does not answer the question being asked. – HangarRash Jun 07 '23 at 14:33
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Try below solution.

ifconfig en1 | awk '/ether/{print $2}'
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  • The question is tagged Objective-C and asks how to get the MAC address programmatically. Using a shell command does not answer the question being asked. – HangarRash Jun 07 '23 at 14:33