in reply to Get version of installed OS

Perhaps this does what you want, it uses Config which is core. Tested on Windows, Solaris and netbsd:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Config;

print "$Config{osname}\n";
print "$Config{archname}\n";
print "$Config{osvers}\n";

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Output:

MSWin32
MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
5.1

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Re^2: Get version of installed OS
by bimleshsharma (Beadle) on Nov 22, 2012 at 11:31 UTC

    Thanks.... One another way to get specially for windows is 

    my $osname = Win32::GetOSName();
my ( $osvername, $major, $minor, $id ) = Win32::GetOSVersion();
 
print "osname: $osname\n";
print "osvername: $osvername\n";
print "major: $major\n";
print "minor: $minor\n";
print "id: $id\n";

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      True, though you didn't specify which OS you were using when you posted the question ;)

      Update: I see you've just changed your question to specify OS. It'd make more sense if you'd posted that as an update to your post, like I've done here.

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