How to check if command line tools is installed

Question

I have a macbook pro with OS X 10.8.2. XCode is installed. I know this as it appears in the Applications directory. There are also the xcodebuild and xcode-select files in /

Answer 1

On macOS Sierra (10.12) :

1. Run the following command to see if CLT is installed:

   xcode-select -p
   

   this will return the path to the tool if CLT is already installed. Something like this -

   /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
   

2. Run the following command to see the version of CLT:

   pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
   

   this will return version info, output will be something like this -

   package-id: com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
   version: 8.2.0.0.1.1480973914
   volume: /
   location: /
   install-time: 1486372375