A simple little tool for the CLI to lookup the model for a Dell system based on its service tag

getModelFromServiceTag

#!/bin/bash
#
# A simple command line tool to
# look the system model for a Dell
# service tag
#
# Usage:
#       getModelFromServiceTag SERVICE_TAG
#
# Author: Liam Haworth <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright (c) Tesserent Ltd, 2016.
#

if [ -z "${1}" ]; then
        echo "Parameter 1 must be set!"
        echo
        echo "Usage:"
        echo -e "\tgetModelFromServiceTag SERVICE_TAG"
        echo
        echo -e "\tSERVICE_TAG - The service tag for the system to get the model of"
        echo
        exit 1
fi

model=$(curl -sL http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/servicetag/${1} | grep -o "<h3 id=\"ProductName\" class=\"no-margin\">.*</h3>" | sed 's/\(<h3 id="ProductName" class="no-margin">\|<\/h3>\)//g')

if [ -z "${model}" ]; then
        echo "Failed to get a model for the service tag: ${1}"
else
        echo "Dell says that ${1} is a \"${model}\""
fi