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🏷️ NAME

Perl::OSType — Map Perl operating system names to generic types

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Get current OS type	os_type()	Returns generic type (e.g., 'Unix', 'Windows') for current OS
Check if current OS is Unix-like	is_os_type('Unix')	Returns true if current OS is a Unix variant
Check if a specific OS is of a type	is_os_type('Unix', 'dragonfly')	Returns true if given OS name belongs to the specified type

📦 VERSION

version 1.010

📋 SYNOPSIS

use Perl::OSType ':all';

$current_type = os_type();
$other_type = os_type('dragonfly'); # gives 'Unix'

📖 DESCRIPTION

Modules that provide OS-specific behaviors often need to know if the current operating system matches a more generic type of operating systems. For example, 'linux' is a type of 'Unix' operating system and so is 'freebsd'.

This module provides a mapping between an operating system name as given by $^O and a more generic type. The initial version is based on the OS type mappings provided in Module::Build and ExtUtils::CBuilder. (Thus, Microsoft operating systems are given the type 'Windows' rather than 'Win32'.)

🛠️ USAGE

No functions are exported by default. The export tag :all will export all functions listed below.

🔧 os_type()

$os_type = os_type();
$os_type = os_type('MSWin32');

Returns a single, generic OS type for a given operating system name. With no arguments, returns the OS type for the current value of $^O. If the operating system is not recognized, the function will return the empty string.

🔧 is_os_type()

$is_windows = is_os_type('Windows');
$is_unix    = is_os_type('Unix', 'dragonfly');

Given an OS type and OS name, returns true or false if the OS name is of the given type. As with os_type(), it will use the current operating system as a default if no OS name is provided.

👁️ SEE ALSO

• Devel::CheckOS

🆘 SUPPORT

🐛 Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Perl-OSType/issues. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue.

📂 Source Code

This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Perl-OSType

git clone https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Perl-OSType.git

✍️ AUTHOR

David Golden <dagolden AT cpan.org>

🙌 CONTRIBUTORS

• Chris 'BinGOs' Williams <chris AT bingosnet.uk>
• David Golden <xdg AT xdg.me>
• Graham Ollis <plicease AT cpan.org>
• Jonas B. Nielsen <jonasbn AT hoarfrost.local>
• Owain G. Ainsworth <oga AT nicotinebsd.org>
• Paul Green <Paul.Green AT stratus.com>
• Piotr Roszatycki <piotr.roszatycki AT gmail.com>

©️ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by David Golden.

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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