Re: Detecting OS X version from perl

On Oct 14, 2007, at 6:56 PM, David Cantrell <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Edward Moy wrote:
>
>> % 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.
>
> Perfect, thanks!

If for whatever reason that lets you down (e.g. trying to get the  
version of a host you have mounted via AFP / NFS / Samba / etc), you  
should also be able to poke in

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

which is basically the same info as sw_vers re****ts, but wrapped in XML.


-- 
Chris Devers