Perl::osnames(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Perl::osnames — it lists every possible value of $^O (aka $OSNAME) with a lil description for each one. Also hi, this is the Perl::osnames(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and yes you're in the right place bestie 🫶

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✨ VERSION ✨

This doc describes version 0.122 of Perl::osnames (it ships in the Perl distribution Perl-osnames), and it was released on 2020-02-13. Obsessed with the sheer history of it 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so. This package contains $data, which is basically the guest list: it lists possible values of $^O and a description for each one. It also hands you some helper functions, which is giving very generous of it 👑

🏷️ Tags

• unix — Unix-like operating systems. Heads up tho: right now this one does not include beos/haiku. Not them being left out 😭
• bsd — BSD-derived Unix operating systems. periodt.
• sysv — SysV-derived Unix operating systems.
• posix — For POSIX-compliant OSes, and that means the fully-, mostly-, and largely-compliant girlies (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. the way that's so uncomfy 🙈

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💅 VARIABLES 💅

None are exported by default, but they are exportable. (Say it with me: none by default, exportable on request ✨)

$data

An arrayref of records (and each record is itself an arrayref), structured exactly like this:

[$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/

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🧚 FUNCTIONS 🧚

None are exported by default, but they are exportable. (same energy as the variables, no cap 💜)

is_posix([ $os ]) => bool

Check whether $os is POSIX — and if you don't pass $os, it defaults to $^O. How does it check? By whether the posix tag exists on that OS's record inside $data. It'll return 0, 1, or undef if $os is unknown 👀

is_unix([ $os ]) => bool

Check whether $os is Unix — again, defaults to $^O if you don't pass $os. This one checks by whether the unix tag exists on that OS's record inside $data. Returns 0, 1, or undef if $os is unknown. Same vibe, different tag 🌸

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🔥 HOMEPAGE 🔥

Come visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-osnames — it's literally right there 💖

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📦 SOURCE 📦

The source repository lives at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Perl-osnames. Go off, clone it 👑

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💀 BUGS 💀

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

When you submit a bug or a request, please include a test-file, or a patch to an existing test-file, that illustrates the bug or the feature you want. fr fr, it helps so much 😭

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👀 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 is: 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. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

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💜 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.

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one was generated by perl v5.36.0 on 2022-10-16, so go forth and grep your OS names, slay, drink water, and remember: $^O is just a string and you are the main character 💖✨🦋