Command line to get os version

[Scott Ribe]

Just need a command to differentiate 10.4 vs 10.5.

Must be in the grip of a wicked brain fart here. Can't remember it. Can't
dredge it up via apropos or google or even dead-tree sources.

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[Scott Ribe]

> Must be in the grip of a wicked brain fart here. Can't remember it. Can't
> dredge it up via apropos or google or even dead-tree sources.

And... 10 seconds after posting this, I think of 1 more thing to try with
apropos, and got it ;-)

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[Scott Ribe]

> try "uname -r"

Thanks. It was uname that I was trying to remember, but sw_vers works better
for what I'm trying to do.

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[Dan Shoop]

On Sep 19, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:

>> try "uname -r"
>
> Thanks. It was uname that I was trying to remember, but sw_vers  
> works better
> for what I'm trying to do.


If you want the OS version, whose name is Darwin, then this is what  
uname will give you. It may seem funky to you until you consider that  
OS X is NeXT. It gives you the kernel release info, which is what the  
OS "is". (Everything else is software, not the OS, which is layered on  
top.)

If you want the software product information and product build number  
for Mac OS X (the stuff on top) then this is what sw_vers will give you.

There is a difference.

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