% perl -e 'chomp($vers = `sw_vers -productVersion`); print "$vers\n"'

That will get you either 10.x or 10.x.y. You just need to strip off the .y if it is there.

Ed

On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:29 AM, David Cantrell wrote:

Is there any simple way that people can think of to detect which major
version of OS X my perl code is running on?

ie whether it's 10.0, 10.1 etc, I don't care about the difference
between 10.3.3 and 10.3.4.

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