Sys::Info(3pm)

💖 Sys::Info — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, this is Sys::Info, a Perl module that lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your man pages, and it does exactly one iconic thing: it goes and fetches info from the host system. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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✨ VERSION ✨

this is version 0.7811. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the lil taste test, copy it exactly bestie:

use Sys::Info;
my $info = Sys::Info->new;
printf "Perl version is %s\n", $info->perl;
if(my $httpd = $info->httpd) {
    print "HTTP Server is $httpd\n";
}
my $cpu = $info->device('CPU');
my $os  = $info->os;
printf "Operating System is %s\n", $os->name( long => 1 );
printf "CPU: %s\n", scalar $cpu->identify;

like… she's serving. look at her go. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

she extracts and collects information from the host system. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly. it's giving little detective. 🔍✨

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

💜 new

the constructor. the birth. the main character entrance. 🌟

🌈 os

creates and returns an instance of a Sys::Info::OS object. peep Sys::Info::OS for all the methods you can call on her.

🍓 device

creates and returns an instance of the object for whichever device you asked for. more deets live in Sys::Info::Device. 🫶

⭐ perl

returns the perl version in version number format, like 5.8.8. and yes bestie, this holds for the legacy perls too — 5.005_03 comes back as 5.5.3. no she did not stutter. 💀

🌸 perl_build

returns the ActivePerl build number if the code is running under Windows with ActivePerl. any other time? returns zero. that's it. that's the whole personality. 🙈

🧚 perl_long

this one is literally just perl and perl_build holding hands. a combination. iconic duo behavior. 👑

🎀 httpd

if the code is running under a HTTP server and that server is one she recognises, she returns the name of that server. otherwise? undef. she's not gonna guess, bestie, she's gonna be honest. 😭

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👑 CONSTANTS 👑

💅 OSID

returns the OS identifier. that's the whole thing. slay. ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, in order, exactly as they appear on the original guest list:

Sys::Info::Base, Sys::Info::OS, Sys::Info::Device, Filesys::Ext2, Filesys::Statvfs, Filesys::Type Filesys::DiskFree, Filesys::DiskSpace, Filesys::DiskUsage, Linux::Distribution, Linux::Distribution::Packages, Probe::MachineInfo, Sys::CPU, Sys::CpuLoad, Sys::Filesystem, Sys::HostIP, Sys::Hostname::FQDN, Sys::Load, Sys::MemInfo, Sys::Uptime, Unix::Processors, Win32::SystemInfo, Win32, Win32API::File, Win32API::Net, Win32::OLE, Win32::TieRegistry

go say hi. they're all lovely. 🫶🌸

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Burak Gursoy <burak@cpan.org>. the legend herself. we stan. 👑

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Burak Gursoy.

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

so like… go wild, remix it, redistribute it, it's free bestie, same terms as Perl 5 itself. 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this one was rendered by perl v5.34.0 on 2022-06-05 — mwah, no notes, she ate and left zero crumbs. 🎀✨🦋