This question seems to be all over google but the answers all point to using System Profiler That s nice but with System Profiler all you get is something that looks like this DasKeyboard Product ID 0x1919 Vendor ID 0x04d9 Holtek Semiconductor Inc Version 1 06 Speed Up to 1 5 Mb sec Location ID 0x1d114000 11 Current Available mA 500 Current Required mA 100 USB2 0 Hub Product ID 0x0608 Vendor ID 0x05e3 Genesys Logic Inc Version 32 98 Speed Up to 480 Mb sec Location ID 0x1d113000 10 Current Available mA 500 Current Required mA 100 Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2 0 Product ID 0x00cb Vendor ID 0x045e Microsoft Corporation Version 1 99 Speed Up to 1 5 Mb sec Manufacturer Microsoft Location ID 0x1d113200 12 Current Available mA 500 Current Required mA 100 That s great if all you want are the contents of a bunch of device descriptors but lsusb gives you so much more - information on interfaces and endpoints interface associations composite devices where can you find this information in OS X There must be a tool that does this

Is there an equivalent of lsusb for OS X

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I got tired of forgetting the system_profiler SPUSBDataType syntax, so I made an lsusb alternative. You can find it here , or install it with homebrew:

brew install lsusb

~ Answered on 2013-09-06 19:29:31

Is there an equivalent of lsusb for OS X

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