OSX list USB devices (lsusb equivalent)
Linux users have the lsusb command to list all their usb devices.
The Mac OSX command line equivalent is
system_profiler SPUSBDataType
For a visual alternative in Lion, the steps are:
- click the apple in the top left corner
- choose About This Mac
- click on the More Info… button to access the System Information application
- click on the System Report… button
- under Hardware group, there’s the USB option that we were searching for
I needed this information to access my HTC phone with Android that I had connected via USB.