Launch terminal in MAC and PC

waytoperl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Launch terminal in MAC and PC by jellisii2 (Hermit) on Oct 30, 2014 at 16:53 UTC
Are you looking for a way to determine what env you're working in? If so, there's a few ways, the most basic being checking `$^O`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Launch terminal in MAC and PC by waytoperl (Beadle) on Oct 31, 2014 at 12:01 UTC
Yes i want to know the env i'm working. Checked `$^O` and not useful data was available `Users-MacBook-Pro:~ User$ perl -e print $^O Users-MacBook-Pro:~ User$` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Launch terminal in MAC and PC by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 31, 2014 at 12:08 UTC
You will need to learn about your shell and quoting. It's better to run such a program from a file if you are not sure how your command line shell behaves. You can try `perl -wl -e 'print $^O'` [download] instead. Note the single quotes that tell Perl the program. Also see perlrun for `-e`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Launch terminal in MAC and PC by aitap (Curate) on Oct 30, 2014 at 18:34 UTC
IPC::Open2 seems to work on Windows even with lists of arguments: `use IPC::Open2 'open2'; my @cmd = qw(perl -v); open2(my $read, my $write, @cmd) or die "[@cmd]: $!"; print while <$read>;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Launch terminal in MAC and PC by perlron (Pilgrim) on Oct 30, 2014 at 16:57 UTC
are you aware of the system command in perl to execute system commands and return control to the srcipt ? perldoc -f system it should work in both environments, though windows there are a lot of environments and u have to be specificSystem command under Windows 7 The temporal difficulty with perl is u need to know C well to know the awesome.else u just keep using* it and writing inefficient code*	[reply]
Re: Launch terminal in MAC and PC by Anonymous Monk on Oct 30, 2014 at 16:55 UTC
Put `open` in a file as part of a complete, correct Perl program?. Or, are you asking how to decide on the `open` syntax based on OS?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Launch terminal in MAC and PC by Anonymous Monk on Oct 30, 2014 at 17:06 UTC
I've a script that calls `open` to launch terminal or cmd. My issue is to know how to integrate MAC launch terminal and PC launch terminal in a single script. How to decide on the `open` syntax based on OS?	[reply] [d/l] [select]