Re: Detecting OS X version from perl

Just a quick question. Is there a command line at a terminal window of 
MacOSX that can do this- tell you more about the hardware? Also list 
software packages and their revisions and also patches?

Peter Hartmann wrote:
> On my 800Mhz Dual Processor PPC the AS command
>
> system info
>
> returns the correct version (10.4.11).
>
> Am 17.11.2007 um 12:21 schrieb Eberhard Lisse:
>
>> Very Cool,
>>
>> on my iMini
>>
>> Gestalt says it's 10.4.9
>> osascript/fider says 10.4.7
>
> I guess this is the version for the application "Finder", not the OS!
>
>> sw_version 10.4.11
>>
>> the latter is correct :-)-O
>
>
> This AS
>
> tell application "Finder"
>     set FinderVersion to version
>     set OSVersion to product version
>     return {FinderVersion, OSVersion}
> end tell
>
> returns
>
> {"10.4.7", ""}
>
> So getting the OS version via the Finder seems to be broken - but 
> there is an alternative, as shown above.
>
> Gestalt seems to be broken, however.
>
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>
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>
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