MAC OS UUID

- (NSString *)GetHardwareUUID
{
    NSTask *task;
    task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
    [task setLaunchPath: @"/usr/sbin/ioreg"];

    NSArray *arguments;
    arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"-rd1", @"-c",@"IOPlatformExpertDevice",nil];
    [task setArguments: arguments];

    NSPipe *pipe;
    pipe = [NSPipe pipe];
    [task setStandardOutput: pipe];

    NSFileHandle *file;
    file = [pipe fileHandleForReading];

    [task launch];

    NSData *data;
    data = [file readDataToEndOfFile];

    NSString *string;
    string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData: data encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    //NSLog (@"grep returned:n%@", string);

    NSString *key = [NSString stringWithString:@"IOPlatformUUID"];
    NSRange range = [string rangeOfString:key];

    NSInteger location = range.location + [key length] + 5;
    NSInteger length = 32 + 4;
    range.location = location;
    range.length = length;

    NSString *UUID = [string substringWithRange:range];

    UUID = [UUID stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"-" withString:@""];
    return UUID;  
}