shelling out? - uname

[Stray Taoist]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:02:02PM -0000, Russ Hogge wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> 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.

Wouldn't $^O do it?

m.

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