• NAME
• VERSION
• DESCRIPTION
  • Tags
• VARIABLES
  • $data
  • $RE_OS_IS_KNOWN
  • $RE_OS_IS_POSIX
  • $RE_OS_IS_UNIX
• FUNCTIONS
  • is_posix([ $os ]) => bool
  • is_unix([ $os ]) => bool
• HOMEPAGE
• SOURCE
• BUGS
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

NAME

Perl::osnames - List possible $^O ($OSNAME) values, with description

VERSION

This document describes version 0.122 of Perl::osnames (from Perl distribution Perl-osnames), released on 2020-02-13.

DESCRIPTION

This package contains $data which lists possible values of $^O along with description for each. It also provides some helper functions.

Tags

• unix

  Unix-like operating systems. This currently excludes beos/haiku.

• bsd

  BSD-derived Unix operating systems.

• sysv

  SysV-derived Unix operating systems.

• posix

  For POSIX-compliant OSes, including fully-, mostly-, and largely-compliant ones (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX).

  From what I can gather, dec_osf is not POSIX compliant, although there is a posix package for it.

VARIABLES

None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

$data

An arrayref of records (arrayrefs), each structured as:

 [$name, \@tags, $description]

$RE_OS_IS_KNOWN

Current value:

 qr/\A(?:aix|amigaos|android|bsdos|beos|bitrig|dgux|dos|dynixptx|cygwin|darwin|dec_osf|dragonfly|freebsd|gnu|gnukfreebsd|haiku|hpux|interix|iphoneos|irix|linux|MacOS|machten|midnightbsd|minix|mirbsd|mpeix|msys|MSWin32|netbsd|next|nto|openbsd|os2|os390|os400|posix-bc|qnx|riscos|sco|sco_sv|solaris|sunos|svr4|svr5|unicos|unicosmk|vmesa|VMS|vos)\z/

$RE_OS_IS_POSIX

Current value:

 qr/\A(?:aix|beos|cygwin|darwin|dragonfly|freebsd|gnu|gnukfreebsd|haiku|hpux|interix|iphoneos|irix|linux|midnightbsd|minix|mirbsd|msys|netbsd|openbsd|sco|sco_sv|solaris|sunos|svr4|svr5|unicos|unicosmk)\z/

$RE_OS_IS_UNIX

Current value:

 qr/\A(?:aix|android|bsdos|bitrig|dgux|dynixptx|cygwin|darwin|dragonfly|freebsd|gnu|gnukfreebsd|hpux|interix|iphoneos|irix|linux|machten|midnightbsd|mirbsd|msys|netbsd|next|nto|openbsd|qnx|sco|sco_sv|solaris|sunos|svr4|svr5|unicos|unicosmk)\z/

FUNCTIONS

None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

is_posix([ $os ]) => bool

Check whether $os (defaults to $^O if not specified) is POSIX (checked by the existence of posix tag on the OS's record in $data). Will return 0, 1, or undef if $os is unknown.

is_unix([ $os ]) => bool

Check whether $os (defaults to $^O if not specified) is Unix (checked by the existence of unix tag on the OS's record in $data). Will return 0, 1, or undef if $os is unknown.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-osnames.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Perl-osnames.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Perl-osnames

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

perlvar

Config

Perl::OSType, a core module. You should probably use this module instead. Currently the difference between this module and Perl::osnames: 1) Perl::osnames currently doesn't list beos/haiku as Unix, but POSIX; 2) Perl::osnames provides more tags (like sysv, bsd, posix) and description.

Devel::Platform::Info

The output of perl -V

App::osnames, the original reason for Perl::osnames. With this CLI tool you can grep OS names by name, tag, or description, e.g. osnames solaris or osnames posix.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020, 2014 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Perl::osnames

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Perl::osnames