Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:50:45 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl thing Message-ID: <20020324195045.EF418BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <F140eOdU8uudgUWr81n000207c8@hotmail.com> References: <F140eOdU8uudgUWr81n000207c8@hotmail.com>
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On Sunday 24 March 2002 02:46 pm, Charles Burns wrote:
| IANAPP (Perl Programmer) but I know that Perl is great for text parsing.
| One way that you could do this, though it wouldn't exactly be elegant,
| would be to parse the output of (say) dmesg. Surely though, there are
| better ways.
|
| >Dear Sirs,
| >
| >is there anything that I could use it in perl program like I can write in
| >C:
| >
| >#ifdef __FreeBSD__
| >
| >#endif
| >
| >???
| >
| >I want to port some perl program that it could run either on FreeBSD or
| >any other system...
Howzabout
if ($ENV{'OSTYPE'} eq 'FreeBSD') {
}
I'm not an expert on this; I just did a printenv | grep BSD and both OSTYPE
and HOSTTYPE are set to FreeBSD. I'm not sure if that's always the case, but
I do know that it's always the case that you can use $ENV to get to
environment variables.
I also checked, and these are set for root and for a from-scratch user
account, so they are probably safely universal.
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