In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Barto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everyone has suggested "system_profiler" for the hardware stuff. But it > appears that I will need do some parsing with > $ grep -A1 'BundleShortVersion' > /Library/Receipts/*.pkg/Contents/version.plist | grep string Why are you looking thare for hardware info? You don't really need to do any parsing. It's a plist, so something like Mac::PropertyList can handle that for you. The module is designed to to the hard work for you so you can slap on a nice interface, but that's not so bad. I'm also thinking about creating something to provide the system_profiler output as a Perl hash. You can get that with XML (which is just another plist), though.
