{"id":37,"date":"2010-03-17T19:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T02:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives2\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-05-30T01:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T08:46:03","slug":"how-to-find-out-what-mac-os-x-system-is-installed-on-a-random-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/how-to-find-out-what-mac-os-x-system-is-installed-on-a-random-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find out what Mac OS X system is installed on a random disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so you have a random disk lying around and you plug it in and it looks like it has Mac OS X installed on it. How do you tell what version it is without booting into it?<\/p>\n<p>First, launch terminal and <tt>cd<\/tt> into the root of the disk (\u201c<tt>\/Volumes\/<\/tt><em>whatever<\/em>\u201c). Then run this command:<\/p>\n<pre>sed -e 's\/.*\\(10\\.[[:digit:]]*\\.[[:digit:]]*\\).*\/\\1\/' \\\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -e '\/^10\/q' -e d System\/Library\/CoreServices\/SystemVersion.plist\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Magic! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives2\/wordpress\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":-)\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so you have a random disk lying around and you plug it in and it looks like it has Mac OS X installed on it. How do you tell what version it is without booting into it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}