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Re: how to get OS version with Shell script?


  • Subject: Re: how to get OS version with Shell script?
  • From: "Wallace, William" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:24:00 -0600
  • Thread-topic: how to get OS version with Shell script?

Now are there any restrictions or caveats to either of these methods? I
mean, will one or both of these methods fail in certain versions of OSX. I
seem to recall that 'do shell script' was not available in the very first
incarnations of OSX. Is that true or did I dream it? ;-}
--
B!ll

> From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:51:38 -0500
> To: William Knight <email@hidden>
> Cc: Horky Chen <email@hidden>, <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: how to get OS version with Shell script?
>
> If you really want to use the shell, it's

set osx_version to (do shell script
> "sw_vers -productVersion")





On 1/11/07, William Knight
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>  set OSversion to system version of (system
> info)
>
>
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> From: Horky Chen
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>  Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:11:17 -0500
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>  Conversation: how to get OS version
> with Shell script?
>  Subject: how to get OS version with Shell script?
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> Dear all,
>
>  Now, I want to write a script to check current version of Mac
> OS. How to
> do?
>
>  Thanks & Best Regards!
>
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