vars-apple-software.md

macOS & Mac Software Update Information

OS VERSION

sw_vers -productVersion

OS VERSION - MAJOR

sw_vers -productVersion | cut -d. -f1

OS VERSION - MINOR

sw_vers -productVersion | cut -d. -f2-

BUILD NUMBER

sw_vers -buildVersion

FRONTMOST APP

osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to return name of first application process whose frontmost is true'

LIST ALL 32-BIT APPLICATIONS

while IFS= read -r app; do file "$app"/Contents/MacOS/* | awk -F: '!/for/&&/i386/&&!/x86_64/{gsub(/\ /,"\\ ");print $1}'; done < <(find -x / -path /System -prune -o -name "*.app" 2> /dev/null)

SOFTWARE UPDATE SERVER

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist CatalogURL 2> /dev/null

# note: key does not exist if set to default, thus 2> /dev/null will prevent using stderr

AUTOMATIC UPDATES ENABLED

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist AutomaticCheckEnabled