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Re: Determining OS Version
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Re: Determining OS Version

  • Subject: Re: Determining OS Version
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:23:18 -0600
On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Jesse Almanrode - JA Computing wrote:

How about you simply run this command

do shell script "sw_vers -productVersion"

This will return a string that is the current version of OS X. This seems to work on all versions of OS X that I have worked on (even back to 10.3)

Yes, but the sw_vers man page says ...

DESCRIPTION
     sw_vers prints version information about the Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server
     operating system running on the local machine.

so the info provided by sw_vers is for the currently running OS, not for the OS installed on some disk that is not the current startup disk.

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