Re: Detecting OS X version from perl
Very Cool,
on my iMini
Gestalt says it's 10.4.9
osascript/fider says 10.4.7
sw_version 10.4.11
the latter is correct :-)-O
on 10/16/07 2:52 AM Chris Nandor said the following:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (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.
This is nice in that it doesn't depend on external processes (sw_vers,
Finder) or files.
use Mac::Gestalt qw(%Gestalt gestaltSystemVersion);
(my $version = sprintf(%x, $Gestalt{gestaltSystemVersion()})) =~
s/^(\d+)(\d)(\d)$/$1.$2.$3/;
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Re: Detecting OS X version from perl
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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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.
___ Peter Hartmann
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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.
___ Peter Hartmann
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Re: Detecting OS X version from perl
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? Quick report: $ system_profiler -detailLevel mini Obsessive detail report: $ system_profiler -detailLevel full Also list software packages and their revisions and also patches? You can get a lot of this from skimming through the /Library/Receipts folder, e.g.: $ grep -A1 'BundleShortVersion' /Library/Receipts/*.pkg/Contents/ version.plist | grep string This works better up through Tiger; the package format changed with Leopard and there may be a new, better way to access that now (maybe run `lsbom` on files under /Library/Receipts, but that doesn't seem to have version data). You can also just query the app directly, modifying the example above, as: $ grep -A1 'BundleShortVersion' /Applications/*.app/Contents/ version.plist | grep string Which now that I think about it probably the way to go, as it's largely the same data as the Receipts folder, but also includes things that don't have an installer (e.g. Firefox, Skype, Adium) and things with a third-party installer (Microsoft Office, the Adobe CS suite, StuffIt, etc). * * * * * On a different tack, since this thread has come back up, I forget if it was mentioned the first time around, but the system version and build should always be available from: $ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist This is useful if you ever need to check, say, a remote file server, or a machine in Firewire target mode, where you can't query system_profiler, sw_vers, etc. If you do the same for the Finder -- $ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/ version.plist -- it may or may not be in step with the SystemVersion (it probably would be, but checking the system itself is more direct). -- Chris Devers
