Get OS in Java
Description
The following code shows how to get OS.
Example
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/*
* OS.java
*
* Created on December 8, 2001, 5:48 PM
*/
import java.io.File;
/**
*
* @author bnevins
* @version
*/
public class Main
{
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isWindows()
{
return File.separatorChar == '\\';
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isUNIX()
{
return File.separatorChar == '/';
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isUnix()
{
// convenience method...
return isUNIX();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isSun()
{
return isName("sun");
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isSolaris10()
{
return isSun() && isVersion("5.10");
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isSunSparc()
{
return isName("sun") && isArch("sparc");
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isSunX86()
{
return isName("sun") && isArch("x86");
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isLinux()
{
return isName("linux");
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isDarwin()
{
return isName("Mac OS X");
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isWindowsForSure()
{
return isName("windows") && isWindows();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// There are 10 known Linux versions!
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isDebianLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/debian_version").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isFedoraLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/fedora-release").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isGentooLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/gentoo-release").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isKnoppixLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/knoppix_version").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isMandrakeLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/mandrake-release").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isMandrivaLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/mandriva-release").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isRedHatLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/redhat-release").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isSlackwareLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/slackware-version").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isSuSELinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/SuSE-release").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public static boolean isUbuntuLinux()
{
return isLinux() && new File("/etc/lsb-release").exists();
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
private static boolean isArch(String name)
{
String archname = System.getProperty("os.arch");
if(archname == null || archname.length() <= 0)
return false;
// case insensitive compare...
archname= archname.toLowerCase();
name= name.toLowerCase();
if(archname.indexOf(name) >= 0)
return true;
return false;
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
private static boolean isName(String name)
{
String osname = System.getProperty("os.name");
if(osname == null || osname.length() <= 0)
return false;
// case insensitive compare...
osname = osname.toLowerCase();
name = name.toLowerCase();
if(osname.indexOf(name) >= 0)
return true;
return false;
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
private static boolean isVersion(String version)
{
String osversion = System.getProperty("os.version");
if(osversion == null || osversion.length() <= 0 || version == null || version.length() <= 0 )
return false;
if(osversion.equals(version))
return true;
return false;
}
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public static final String WINDOWS_BATCH_FILE_EXTENSION = ".bat";
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("os.version = " + System.getProperty("os.version"));
System.out.println("os.name = " + System.getProperty("os.name"));
System.out.println("os.arch = " + System.getProperty("os.arch"));
System.out.println("isUNIX() returned: " + isUNIX());
System.out.println("isWindows() returned: " + isWindows());
System.out.println("isWindowsForSure() returned: " + isWindowsForSure());
System.out.println("isSun() returned: " + isSun());
System.out.println("isLinux() returned: " + isLinux());
System.out.println("isDebianLinux() returned: " + isDebianLinux());
System.out.println("isFedoraLinux() returned: " + isFedoraLinux());
System.out.println("isGentooLinux() returned: " + isGentooLinux());
System.out.println("isKnoppixLinux() returned: " + isKnoppixLinux());
System.out.println("isMandrakeLinux() returned: " + isMandrakeLinux());
System.out.println("isMandrivaLinux() returned: " + isMandrivaLinux());
System.out.println("isRedHatLinux() returned: " + isRedHatLinux());
System.out.println("isSlackwareLinux() returned: " + isSlackwareLinux());
System.out.println("isSuSELinux() returned: " + isSuSELinux());
System.out.println("isUbuntuLinux() returned: " + isUbuntuLinux());
System.out.println("isSunX86() returned: " + isSunX86());
System.out.println("isSunSparc() returned: " + isSunSparc());
System.out.println("isDarwin() returned: " + isDarwin());
System.out.println("isSolaris10() returned: " + isSolaris10());
}
}
The code above generates the following result.