NAME

QueryOS - Provides a class and an executable, query-os, to list OS details

SYNOPSIS

use QueryOS;
my $o = OS.new;
say $o.version-name # OUTPUT: «debian␤»

DESCRIPTION

QueryOS is a module that provides a class, OS, with methods and attributes to simplify module authors' porting their work to various operating systems by identifying important system discriminators. The module relies on the attributes of Raku's $*USER, $*DISTRO, and $*KERNEL variables and parses out additional details in parts of those attributes.

Current attributes and methods are:

name - from $*DISTRO.name
version - from $*DISTRO.version
version-name - text part of $*DISTRO.name
version-serial - number part of $*DISTRO.name
is-linux
is-windows
is-macos

List of known DISTRO names:

debian
gentoo
macos
mswin
suse
ubuntu

Example binary use

When I execute query-os q on my system I get:

This program is currently running on:

    Host:           bigtom
    User:           tbrowde
    Distro:         debian*
    Version name:   bullseye
    Version number: 11
    System:         x86_64

This module provides class 'OS' whose attributes
provide details of the system to aid module
authors porting to multiple versions. See the
README for more information or use the 'list'
option to this program.

*NOTE: If the 'Distro' name is not recognized,
       it will be so stated in parentheses
       following the reported name.

AUTHOR

Tom Browder tbrowder@acm.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you may redistribute it or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.