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Maintenance Ruby 3.4 gets fixes, but no new features. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →

class method

Etc.uname

() -> { sysname: ::String, nodename: ::String, release: ::String, version: ::String, machine: ::String }
uname → hash

Returns the system information obtained by uname system call.

The return value is a hash which has 5 keys at least:

:sysname, :nodename, :release, :version, :machine

Example:

Example
require 'etc'
require 'pp'

pp Etc.uname
#=> {:sysname=>"Linux",
#    :nodename=>"boron",
#    :release=>"2.6.18-6-xen-686",
#    :version=>"#1 SMP Thu Nov 5 19:54:42 UTC 2009",
#    :machine=>"i686"}
See also .systmpdir .sysconfdir also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0