Shell script to find OSX version

Question

I tried sw_vers but it only prints the information to the terminal. I cannot use it, as I have to store it in a variable and then compare.

Based on version I have to move files to appropriate location in file system.

What's the correct way to achieve this?

Any command that outputs information to a terminal can be used to get that same information into a variable, by setting the variable equal to the command enclosed within back ticks. VAR=`ls` runs the ls command and assigns VAR to the output of it. — mah
– mah, Commented Jun 12, 2014 at 10:33
@mah:thanks for letting me know.I am not a developer who is familiar with the scripting languages,I do development using objective-c.So I wasn't aware of that. Thank you very much again — subhash Amale
– subhash Amale, Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 9:37

Mark Setchell · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-12 10:41:10Z

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This is the way to do it:

v=$(sw_vers -productVersion)

echo $v
10.9.3

answered Jun 12, 2014 at 10:41

Mark Setchell

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