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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / November 2007Detecting OS X version from perl
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.  SignatureDavid Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age I caught myself pulling grey hairs out of my beard. I'm definitely not going grey, but I am going vain. % 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. Ed > 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. > % 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! SignatureDavid Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H. L. Mencken >> % 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 reports, but wrapped in XML. SignatureChris Devers >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. print `osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to version'` JD > 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/; SignatureChris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Open Source Technology Group pudge@ostg.com http://ostg.com/ 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: >> Is there any simple way that people can think of to detect which major >> version of OS X my perl code is running on? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > (my $version = sprintf("%x", $Gestalt{gestaltSystemVersion()})) =~ > s/^(\d+)(\d)(\d)$/$1.$2.$3/; SignatureIf you want to email me, replace nospam with el > > ie whether it's 10.0, 10.1 etc, I don't care about the difference >> between 10.3.3 and 10.3.4. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > (my $version = sprintf("%x", $Gestalt{gestaltSystemVersion()})) =~ > s/^(\d+)(\d)(\d)$/$1.$2.$3/; Note that gestaltSystemVersion tops out at ".9", so it will return 10.4.9 for all future 10.4 updates (including 10.4.10 and 10.4.11 etc). Fortunately, this does not affect you. You can use gestaltSystemVersionMajor, gestaltSystemVersionMinor, and gestaltSystemVersionBugFix to return the three parts of the version (10, 4 and 11). Enjoy, Peter. SignatureKeyboard Maestro <http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/> Macros for your Mac <http://www.stairways.com/> <http://download.stairways.com/> > 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 was thinking about this last week because some of the stuff in /usr/include changed between Panther and Tiger. I've uploaded Mac::OSVersion, which I was working on at the same time this thread came up. It has various methods to get the major, minor, bugfix, build, and kernel numbers. It can also get those numbers through various methods. I've only tried in on Tiger so far, I'm trying to get my Panther machine back up, and I haven't turned any work machines into Leopards yet. Does anyone have something with Cheetah or Puma on it? Does anyone have a matrix of Mac OS X version, build number, and kernel versions? I'd like to have at least one method that just looks at a big table. I don't know how good this info is: http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/download/usbdebug.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29 |
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