Machine Report

A Turbo Vision system readout, every time a terminal opens.

Year: 2026
Made for: macOS, bash
State: shipped

A fork of U.S. Graphics Company’s TR-100, which was written for Debian servers running ZFS. Mine is a Mac.

Rewritten against sysctl, vm_stat, pmset and system_profiler, then dressed in Borland grey — double-line box drawing, a drop shadow, green bar graphs for load and disk and memory. There is no config file on purpose: the script is cut into labelled sections and you edit it directly.

It tells me nothing I could not get another way. It looks right, and that is the entire reason it is installed.

How to use it

Copy one script and source it from your shell rc. It prints every time a terminal opens.

Terminal

git clone https://github.com/JaimeOrtegaxyz/machine-report.git
cp machine-report/machine_report.sh ~/.machine_report.sh
chmod +x ~/.machine_report.sh

Then source it for interactive shells only.

Terminal

echo 'if [[ $- == *i* ]]; then
    source ~/.machine_report.sh
fi' >> ~/.zshrc

macOS, and a terminal with 24-bit colour. No config file on purpose: the script is cut into labelled sections, so reorder rows in the Output block. Set DEMO_MODE=true at the top to screenshot it without showing your real machine.

More work Everything, including the small stuff