On Nov 17, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Michael Barto wrote:
Just a quick question. Is there a command line at a terminal window
of MacOSX that can do this- tell you more about the hardware?
Quick report:
$ system_profiler -detailLevel mini
Obsessive detail report:
$ system_profiler -detailLevel full
Also list software packages and their revisions and also patches?
You can get a lot of this from skimming through the /Library/Receipts
folder, e.g.:
$ grep -A1 'BundleShortVersion' /Library/Receipts/*.pkg/Contents/
version.plist | grep string
This works better up through Tiger; the package format changed with
Leopard and there may be a new, better way to access that now (maybe
run `lsbom` on files under /Library/Receipts, but that doesn't seem to
have version data).
You can also just query the app directly, modifying the example above,
as:
$ grep -A1 'BundleShortVersion' /Applications/*.app/Contents/
version.plist | grep string
Which now that I think about it probably the way to go, as it's
largely the same data as the Receipts folder, but also includes things
that don't have an installer (e.g. Firefox, Skype, Adium) and things
with a third-party installer (Microsoft Office, the Adobe CS suite,
StuffIt, etc).
* * * * *
On a different tack, since this thread has come back up, I forget if
it was mentioned the first time around, but the system version and
build should always be available from:
$ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
This is useful if you ever need to check, say, a remote file server,
or a machine in Firewire target mode, where you can't query
system_profiler, sw_vers, etc.
If you do the same for the Finder --
$ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/
version.plist
-- it may or may not be in step with the SystemVersion (it probably
would be, but checking the system itself is more direct).
--
Chris Devers
