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os-name
Get the name of the current operating system
Example:macOS Sierra
Useful for analytics and debugging.
Install
$ npm install --save os-name
Usage
const os = require('os');
const osName = require('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'
API
osName([platform, release])
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.
Contributing
Production systems depend on this package for logging / tracking. Please be careful when introducing new output, and adhere to existing output format (whitespace, capitalization, etc.).
Related
- os-name-cli - CLI for this module
License
MIT © Sindre Sorhus