Get my computer's current city and state from terminal
Command line tool
I've made quick modification to an excellent robmathers app WhereAmI. You can find it on my github.
Once You compile it and run, that's the output:
Latitude: 40.714232
Longitude: -73.9612889
Accuracy (m): 65.000000
Timestamp: 30.04.2015, 11:37:45 CEST
Location: 277 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, United States
If You want only the city and the country - changes in parsing json should be made (or grep
the output). Sample json data can be found here.
Note: This is very quick implementation, but there shouldn't be any errors
Info from preferences
You can get info from preferences by running:
defaults read /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist com.apple.preferences.timezone.selected_city
You'll need to parse the output, because it looks like:
{
CountryCode = PL;
GeonameID = 3081368;
Latitude = "51.1";
LocalizedNames = {
pl = "Wroc\\U0142aw";
};
Longitude = "17.03333";
Name = "Wroc\\U0142aw";
Population = 634893;
TimeZoneName = "Europe/Warsaw";
Version = 1;
}