You can use wmic os get commands on a Microsoft Windows system
to view information related to the operating system via a command-line
interface (CLI). E.g., to determine the version of the operating system you
can issue the command
Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC)
command wmic os get version.
C:\Users\Public>wmic os get version Version 10.0.15063 C:\Users\Public>
Or if you know the system is running a particular version of the Windows
operating system, e.g., Windows 10, but want to see just the build number
for that version of Windows, you could issue the command wmic os get
BuildNumber.
C:\Users\Public>wmic os get BuildNumber BuildNumber 15063 C:\Users\Public>
To determine the last time a Microsoft Windows system was rebooted with
WMIC, you can use the command wmic os get LastBootUpTime.
C:\Users\Public>wmic os get LastBootUpTime LastBootUpTime 20171010211214.499885-240 C:\Users\Public>
Other values you can check are shown below:
C:\Users\Public>wmic os get BootDevice BootDevice \Device\HarddiskVolume1 C:\Users\Public>wmic os get OSType OSType 18 C:\Users\Public>wmic os get version Version 10.0.15063 C:\Users\Public>cd ..\Public C:\Users\Public>wmic os get status Status OK C:\Users\Public>wmic os get locale Locale 0409 C:\Users\Public>wmic os get countrycode CountryCode 1 C:\Users\Public>wmic os get systemdrive SystemDrive C: C:\Users\Public>wmic os get windowsdirectory WindowsDirectory C:\WINDOWS C:\Users\Public>wmic os get OSLanguage OSLanguage 1033 C:\Users\Public>wmic os get othertypedescription OtherTypeDescription C:\Users\Public>wmic os get OSProductSuite OSProductSuite 256 C:\Users\Public>wmic os get Manufacturer Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation C:\Users\Public>wmic os get CurrentTimeZone CurrentTimeZone -240 C:\Users\Public>wmic os get LocalDateTime LocalDateTime 20171028122315.145000-240 C:\Users\Public>
The CurrentTimeZone value is the number of minutes that
the system's time zone differs from
UTC time, aka Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and
Zulu time. In this case the system is in the eastern U.S.
and is currently 4 hours behind GMT. The LocalDateTime value is
in the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS where YYYY is the year, MM the month, DD the
day, HH the hour, and SS the number of seconds, which is followed by
fractions of a second. E.g., in the above example, the date is October
28, 2017 and the time is 12:23 PM.
To see the full list of values for which you can query, you can issue
the command wmic os get /?.
C:\Users\Public>wmic os get /? Property get operations. USAGE: GET [<property list>] [<get switches>] NOTE: <property list> ::= <property name> | <property name>, <property list> The following properties are available: Property Type Operation ======== ==== ========= BootDevice N/A N/A BuildNumber N/A N/A BuildType N/A N/A CSDVersion N/A N/A CSName N/A N/A CodeSet N/A N/A CountryCode N/A N/A CurrentTimeZone N/A N/A Debug N/A N/A Description N/A N/A Distributed N/A N/A EncryptionLevel N/A N/A ForegroundApplicationBoost N/A N/A FreePhysicalMemory N/A N/A FreeSpaceInPagingFiles N/A N/A FreeVirtualMemory N/A N/A InstallDate N/A N/A LastBootUpTime N/A N/A LocalDateTime N/A N/A Locale N/A N/A Manufacturer N/A N/A MaxNumberOfProcesses N/A N/A MaxProcessMemorySize N/A N/A Name N/A N/A NumberOfLicensedUsers N/A N/A NumberOfProcesses N/A N/A NumberOfUsers N/A N/A OSLanguage N/A N/A OSProductSuite N/A N/A OSType N/A N/A Organization N/A N/A OtherTypeDescription N/A N/A PlusProductID N/A N/A PlusVersionNumber N/A N/A Primary N/A N/A QuantumLength N/A N/A QuantumType N/A N/A RegisteredUser N/A N/A SerialNumber N/A N/A ServicePackMajorVersion N/A N/A ServicePackMinorVersion N/A N/A SizeStoredInPagingFiles N/A N/A Status N/A N/A SystemDevice N/A N/A SystemDirectory N/A N/A SystemDrive N/A N/A TotalSwapSpaceSize N/A N/A TotalVirtualMemorySize N/A N/A TotalVisibleMemorySize N/A N/A Version N/A N/A WindowsDirectory N/A N/A The following GET switches are available: /VALUE - Return value. /ALL(default) - Return the data and metadata for the attribute. /TRANSLATE:<table name> - Translate output via values from <table name>. /EVERY:<interval> [/REPEAT:<repeat count>] - Returns value every (X interval) se conds, If /REPEAT specified the command is executed <repeat count> times. /FORMAT:<format specifier> - Keyword/XSL filename to process the XML results. NOTE: Order of /TRANSLATE and /FORMAT switches influences the appearance of outp ut. Case1: If /TRANSLATE precedes /FORMAT, then translation of results will be follo wed by formatting. Case2: If /TRANSLATE succeeds /FORMAT, then translation of the formatted results will be done. C:\Users\Public>
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