Topic: uname

• Detecting the operating system from a script: uname, os-release, sw_vers, oslevel and a fallback order

  A portable script needs a reliable way to branch on operating system and version before running an OS-specific command from any of the other articles in this series. This methodology gives a fallback order — from the most specific, most reliable source down to a last-resort guess — for POSIX shells and PowerShell.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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