This command will get you the last 6 digits of the serial:

set serial to (do shell script "system_profiler SPHardwareDataType|grep 'Serial Number'|awk '{print $4}'|cut -c 7-12")

another variation that should do it:

#!/bin/sh

serial=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}' | grep -o '......$'`



/usr/sbin/jamf setComputerName -prefix 'BSM' -suffix 'AIR'  -name $serial

Yet another variation on getting the last 6 characters of the serial number that doesn't rely on system_profiler

ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk -F'"' '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/{print $4}' | tail -c 7

@chris.kemp You must have a pretty old version of the JSS if you're still using /usr/sbin/jamf as the path to the binary. :)

Okay --

Setting up my test machine now. I think i've had the path to binary wrong in my first code @mm2270

Here is what I have, I'll know progress in a few minutes after this OS installs. Testing for DEP deployment next month!

Thank you for the quick responses everyone!

#!/bin/sh

serial=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}' | grep -o '......$'`



/usr/local/jamf/bin/jamf setComputerName -prefix 'BSM' -suffix 'AIR'  -name $serial

@mm2270

Using your code would be this?

#!/bin/sh

serial='ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk -F'"' '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/{print $4}' | tail -c 7'



/usr/local/jamf/bin/jamf setComputerName -prefix 'BSM' -suffix 'AIR'  -name $serial

@bcheney Almost.

To make serial into a valid variable, you have to enclose the command in either backticks (not as preferable) or the $(command) syntax. So that line should look like this instead

serial=$(ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk -F'"' '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/{print $4}' | tail -c 7)

If you want to just snip that tail part off:

ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk -F" '/S.*N/{print $(NF-1)}'

Hey @grepoli The tail was actually to grab the last 6 characters of the serial number as requested by @bcheney in the original post. I couldn't figure out a way of not using something like tail to get those. Your awk skills may be better than mine, so if you know of a way to get the serial's last 6 without needing to pipe it into another process, I would love to know myself. Maybe sed can do it, but I didn't really try.
I know if the serial is first stored into a variable you can then use bash variable expansion to get the last 6, but that's an extra step regardless.

@mm2270 this is super late, guess i'm not receiving notifications. tail -c 7 works fine but if u wanted it all in the awk string you'd just add the substr tool and specify the character position to print from: print substr(<column>,<character position>). We want the output of the second-to-last column ($(NF-1)) beginning with the 7th character, so it'd look like:

ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk -F" '/S.*N/{print substr($(NF-1),7)}'