[MacTUG] Use command line to get version number of an app

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

I know ARD can get this info for you but:

1)       Sometimes it can take forever to get this data, or craps out

2)       Sometimes you want it on computers that do not use ARD

This sort of thing works well
mdls /Applications/Application_name.app -name kMDItemVersion | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'

mdls lists the metadata for a file which can be tons of info

from https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/18082/find-application-version-through-terminal-deploying-office-2016-updates



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Donald Duff-McCracken
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Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
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