OS X version info from the command line

[ericmurphy]

It's not too difficult to get version info for Unix daemons (httpd, sshd, ssld) from the command line. But what about the OS itself? Is there a way to get the OS X version or the Darwin version from the command line? I'm sure there must be...

 

[blb]

Yup,

$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.1.3
BuildVersion:   5Q45

$ uname -a
Darwin host.domain.com 5.3 Darwin Kernel Version 5.3: Thu Jan 24 22:06:02 PST 2002;
root:xnu/xnu-201.19.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc

 

[ericmurphy]

Thanks, it works like a charm.

 

[onan]

Or, if you'd like to parse through a lot more output:
/usr/sbin/AppleSystemProfiler