shelling out? - uname

[Luke Ross]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:02:02PM -0000, Russ Hogge wrote:
> 
> Is there a good method of returning uname within perl.  I need to test if
> my script is running on Linux or Solaris, and suspect that there is a
> module that would tell me this information is a sane manner.
> 
> Clearly I could just type:
> chomp($platform = `/usr/bin/uname`);
> 
> But this strikes me as poor.
> 
> Any thoughts?

How about looking at $^O - then you don't even need a module :-)

Luke
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