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operating system (OS) detection in Lua
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getOS.lua
function getOS()
-- ask LuaJIT first
if jit then
return jit.os
end
-- Unix, Linux variants
local fh,err = assert(io.popen("uname -o 2>/dev/null","r"))
if fh then
osname = fh:read()
end
return osname or "Windows"
end
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