Java Get OS Name

Posted by blogmeister on

September 14, 2008

This method returns the name of the operating system that the program is running in.

public static String getOsName() {
  String os = "";
  if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") > -1) {
    os = "windows";
  } else if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("linux") > -1) {
    os = "linux";
  } else if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("mac") > -1) {
    os = "mac";
  }
  return os;
}

public static String getOsName() {

String os = "";

if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") > -1) {

os = "windows";

} else if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("linux") > -1) {

os = "linux";

} else if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("mac") > -1) {

os = "mac";

}

return os;

}

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tags: java, os

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