Is there an equivalent of lsusb for OS X

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

我通常运行此命令列出Mac OS X上的USB设备，以及有关它们的详细信息：

ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0

Answer 3

Homebrew users: you can get lsusb by installing usbutils formula from my tap:

brew install mikhailai/misc/usbutils

It installs the REAL lsusb based on Linux sources (version 007).

Answer 4

在mac osx中，您可以使用以下命令：

system_profiler SPUSBDataType

Answer 5

If you are a user of MacPorts , you may simply install usbutils

sudo port install usbutils

If you are not, this might be a good opportunity to install it, it has ports for several other useful linux tools.

Answer 6

How about ioreg ? The output's much more detailed than the profiler, but it's a bit dense.

Source: https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-July/011115.html

Answer 7

system_profiler SPUSBDataType

你需要在macos上命令

Answer 8

至少在system_profiler SPUSBDataType上，当新的USB设备插入时， system_profiler SPUSBDataType输出不会动态更新，而ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0动态更新。

Answer 9

On Mac OS X, the Xcode developer suite includes the USB Proper.app application. This is found in /Developer/Applications/Utilities/. USB Prober will allow you to examine the device and interface descriptors.

Answer 10

I'll through my hat into this having tried the answers here. The lsusb script is barely working and the macOS port of usbutils doesn't capture string descriptors or support --tree .

It lead me to create cyme , a modern cross-platform USB list tool using system_profiler -json under the hood. It also uses libusb for extra data/cross-platform and udev on Linux. It supports --lsusb compatible mode, which near matches lsusb 's output for all args. It should scratch the macOS lsusb itch and more.