Re: Detecting OS X version from perl

Try 'system_profiler'.  Running it as 'system_profiler -detaillevel  
full' will probably provide more information than you really need. Run  
it with an unrecognized option (e.g. '-help') for more info.


On Nov 17, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Michael Barto wrote:

>
> 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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