What is "$^O" on Cygwin?

[James E Keenan]

Can anyone running Cygwin tell me what the value for $^O is?

perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'

MSWin32? Cygwin? Something else?

Thanks in advance.

jimk

 

[Bob Walton]

Can anyone running Cygwin tell me what the value for $^O is?

perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'

MSWin32? Cygwin? Something else? ....
jimk

When I try it, I get:

bob@vektron ~
$ perl -e 'print $^O'
cygwin
bob@vektron ~
$

 

[Randy Harris]

Can anyone running Cygwin tell me what the value for $^O is?

perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'

MSWin32? Cygwin? Something else?

Thanks in advance.

jimk

$ perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'
MSWin32

 

[James E Keenan]

When I try it, I get:

bob@vektron ~
$ perl -e 'print $^O'
cygwin
bob@vektron ~
$

$ perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'
MSWin32

Interesting that the results are *not* consistent!

jimk

 

[Bob Walton]

Interesting that the results are *not* consistent!

jimk

I can get that result also, if I execute ActiveState Perl built
for Windoze under Cygwin:

bob@vektron ~
$ /cygdrive/c/perl/bin/perl.exe -e 'print $^O'
MSWin32
bob@vektron ~
$

I was executing Perl built under Cygwin when I got the "cygwin"
result. HTH.

 

[Joe Smith]

$ perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'
MSWin32

That's the wrong perl. You need to readjust your $PATH.

bash-2.05b$ /usr/bin/perl -le 'print $^O'
cygwin
bash-2.05b$ /cygdrive/c/perl/bin/perl -le 'print $^O'
MSWin32
bash-2.05b$

-Joe

 

[Sisyphus]

Can anyone running Cygwin tell me what the value for $^O is?

perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'

MSWin32? Cygwin? Something else?

You will find that '/mswin/i' will always match $^O on Microsoft Windows and
*never* match $^O on Cygwin - and that '/cygwin/i' will always match $^O on
Cygwin and *never* match $^O on Microsoft Windows. (But that answers a
different question

Cheers,
Rob