Re: Detecting OS X version from perl

2007-11-18 Thread kurtz le pirate
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Devers) wrote: > Quick report: > > $ system_profiler -detailLevel mini > > Obsessive detail report: > > $ system_profiler -detailLevel full a little more precise if use system_profiler : system_profiler SPSoftwareDataTyp

Re: Detecting OS X version from perl

2007-11-18 Thread Peter N Lewis
At 17:52 -0700 15/10/07, Chris Nandor wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Cantrell) wrote: > 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

Re: Detecting OS X version from perl

2007-11-18 Thread Michael Barto
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 On Solaris you have pkginfo,  in HP you have "swlist" and Linux you need to use

Re: Detecting OS X version from perl

2007-11-18 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. I wa