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Perl::osnames(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Perl::osnames(3)

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

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

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

  • 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.

None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

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

 [$name, \@tags, $description]

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/

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/

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/

None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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".

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

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.

2020-02-13 perl v5.32.1

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