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Get the name of the current operating system
Example:macOS Sierra
Useful for analytics and debugging.
npm install os-name
import os from 'node:os';
import osName from 'os-name';
// On a macOS Sierra system
osName();
//=> 'macOS Sierra'
osName(os.platform(), os.release());
//=> 'macOS Sierra'
osName('darwin', '14.0.0');
//=> 'OS X Yosemite'
osName('linux', '3.13.0-24-generic');
//=> 'Linux 3.13'
osName('win32', '6.3.9600');
//=> 'Windows 8.1'
By default, the name of the current operating system is returned.
You can optionally supply a custom os.platform()
and os.release()
.
Check out getos
if you need the Linux distribution name.
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Get the name of the current operating system. Example: macOS Sierra
The npm package os-name receives a total of 1,835,143 weekly downloads. As such, os-name popularity was classified as popular.
We found that os-name demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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