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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Comparing Version Numbers Post 302269326 by davewg on Wednesday 17th of December 2008 11:32:01 AM
Old 12-17-2008
It's just for a script in an installer package that needs to check the OS version to ensure it's suitable.

So I have for example decided that 10.4.6 is the required version my install needs and a variable with that value is already set in my script. Then, my script runs and detects that the OS X version of the target is 10.4.11. All I need to do now is to compare them, and then I can return the appropriate result to the installer...
 

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