In a message dated Tue, 25 Feb 2003, drieux writes:

>
> On Tuesday, Feb 25, 2003, at 18:20 US/Pacific, Chris Devers wrote:
> [..]
> >
> > And, now that I try it, it also looks inaccurate:
> >
> >     % sw_vers | grep 'ProductVersion' | awk '{print $2}'
> >     10.2.4
> >     %
> [..]
>
> hence for moral purity we would do:
>
> sub get_osx_version
> ...

Or, for a one-liner that's still morally pure:

  % sw_vers | perl -anle 'print $F[1] if /ProductVersion:/'

Trey
-- who thinks this dead horse has now been beaten to a pulp

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