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With all the changes lately, I found it a challenge to determine what version command-line tools I had installed on my Mac.
After all, XCode gives me a rather useless number:
$ xcode-select --version xcode-select version 2397
But with some help I did find that the CLang version (clang --version) is the indicator we need to look for (now that makes sense, and why is Xcode version not showing this?)
$ clang --version Apple clang version 15.0.0 (clang-1500.0.40.1) Target: arm64-apple-darwin22.6.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
So there ya go: command line tools 15 ... (in this example)
Well another, probably more correct way (requires XCode to be installed):
xcodebuild -version
Results in:
$ xcodebuild -version Xcode 15.0 Build version 15A240d
Interesting additional info is by looking at the install/update history ...
$ softwareupdate --history | grep Command Command Line Tools for Xcode 14.2 09/22/2023, 12:54:57 Command Line Tools for Xcode 14.3 09/22/2023, 12:54:57 Command Line Tools for Xcode 15.0 09/22/2023, 12:54:57
And another way to test this:
pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
