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Gorian	6 Nov, 2009 - 01:01 PM Post #1
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	So, not sure what forum was best to put this.... What I want is to use a script to find out what os the program is run on, and save it to a variable that can be accessed by another program, or possibly the same one? To distinguish between XP and Vista, I have the following for a batch file, however, it is not really clear enough, and only encompasses 2 of a lot of different windows OSs. CODE :: Script to find the OS Version :: By Gorian @echo off cd .. if %OS% == Windows_NT Goto Windows_NT :Windows_NT set pathXP==C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME% set pathVista==C:\Users\%USERNAME% if /i %USERPROFILE% == %pathXP% Goto XP if /i %USERPROFILE% == %pathVista% Goto Vista Goto Error :XP set OSVERSION=XP Goto End :Vista set OSVERSION=Vista Goto End :Error echo. echo An Error has occured echo. pause Goto End :End echo %OSVERSION% exit /b I know that I can use psinfo from the sysinternals to find it, and had code that parsed the output until only the OS version remained... CODE psinfo \| grep "Kernel version" \| gawk -F: "{ print $2 }" \| gawk -F, "{ print $1 }" \|gawk -F" " "{ print $3 }" however, I could not seem to get this into a system variable, i tried different redirection operators > and \| and such.... I would like to have in a simpler script, so I can have it as a variable that can be accessed by Batch Files. I am not asking for code, but some guidance would be appreciated. This post has been edited by Gorian: 6 Nov, 2009 - 01:02 PM
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PsychoCoder	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 6 Nov, 2009 - 01:29 PM Post #2
I Code, Therefore I am Joined: 26 Jul, 2007 Posts: 14,919 Thanked: 517 times Dream Kudos: 11525 Expert In: VB, VB.Net, C#, SQL, ASP, ASP.Net, Web Development, HTML, CSS, Win32 API, Javascript, mySQL, J#, Boo.Net, jQuery My Contributions	Moved to Other Languages
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 6 Nov, 2009 - 01:30 PM Post #3
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	Cool. Thanks PsychoCoder. That was my second choice, since I was using mostly batch files, but I figured our OS guys might know too..... This post has been edited by Gorian: 6 Nov, 2009 - 01:31 PM
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 7 Nov, 2009 - 11:18 AM Post #4
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	or apparently no one? If ya help me, I'll let ya hug gabehabe.....
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Raynes	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 7 Nov, 2009 - 10:28 PM Post #5
Resident Witch. No, really. Joined: 5 Jan, 2009 Posts: 957 Thanked: 14 times Dream Kudos: 250 My Contributions	(System/getProperty "os.name") In Clojure. Of course that could translate to Java as well, since it's simply a Java method call from Clojure. :>
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 8 Nov, 2009 - 05:06 PM Post #6
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	I don't know Clojure or Java.... Is it the variable callable from other files?
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 10 Nov, 2009 - 12:28 PM Post #7
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	So, Here is my revised code, but it doesn't solve my problem... CODE :: Script to find the OS Version :: By Gorian @echo off cd .. if %OS% == Windows_NT Goto Windows_NT :Windows_NT set pathXP=C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME% set pathVista=C:\Users\%USERNAME% if /i "%USERPROFILE%" == "%pathXP%" (Goto XP) if /i "%USERPROFILE%" == "%pathVista%" (Goto Vista) Else (Goto Error) :XP set OSVERSION=XP Goto End :Vista set OSVERSION=Vista Goto End :Error echo. echo An Error has occured echo. pause Goto End :End ::echo %OSVERSION% exit /b This post has been edited by Gorian: 10 Nov, 2009 - 12:28 PM
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 15 Nov, 2009 - 08:52 PM Post #8
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	Wondering if anyone can answer... please? Offer still stands.... This post has been edited by Gorian: 15 Nov, 2009 - 08:52 PM
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Raynes	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 15 Nov, 2009 - 09:59 PM Post #9
Resident Witch. No, really. Joined: 5 Jan, 2009 Posts: 957 Thanked: 14 times Dream Kudos: 250 My Contributions	Maybe you would get an answer on stackoverflow.com? I wouldn't normally recommend for someone to go to a different site, but it's obvious you aren't getting any answers here.
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 15 Nov, 2009 - 11:42 PM Post #10
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	I know. It is weird, and I love these guys too. Makes me sad.
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 15 Nov, 2009 - 11:53 PM Post #11
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	maybe if I was more clear? I chose to use Batch Files because they seemed easiest, but if someone can suggest something else that does not require me to learn a new language... What I want is a script to find out what OS is being run, and store it to a variable so that it can be called again. This allows me to write scripts for copying, or running programs that call the right path based on the OS. For instance, %appdata% is different in Vista than in XP, and it can be annoying to path things like "%appdata%\..\..\Folder\Folder\file.ext" With a batch file, I can call the script as call OS_Version.bat and all variables made with the set command are available to be called by the calling script. Plus, it seems to me, without getting complicated in C++, to start programs, one would do a system("Start File.exe"); or shell execute anyway, so it makes sense to use a batch file and save time and space.... This post has been edited by Gorian: 15 Nov, 2009 - 11:53 PM
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olibenu	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 16 Nov, 2009 - 01:00 AM Post #12
D.I.C Regular Joined: 31 Dec, 2008 Posts: 269 Thanked: 15 times Dream Kudos: 350 My Contributions	since it's hard to do it with batch scripts, have u tried the registry from ur language. i'm sure it's stored somewhere
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 16 Nov, 2009 - 11:00 AM Post #13
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	Ah, now that is a good idea.... Thank you. Problem being, seems like a lot more work... This post has been edited by Gorian: 16 Nov, 2009 - 11:00 AM
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RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script

16 Nov, 2009 - 06:36 PM

Post #14

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Yay! I think I solved it.

batch


@ECHO OFF


VER |find /i "Windows 95" > nul
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO 95

VER |find /i "Windows 98" > nul
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO 98

VER |find /i "Windows Millennium" > nul 
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO ME

VER | find "XP" > nul
IF %errorlevel% EQU 0 GOTO XP

VER | find "2000" > nul
IF %errorlevel% EQU 0 GOTO 2000

VER | find "NT" > nul
IF %errorlevel% EQU 0 GOTO NT

VER | find /i "Vista" > nul
IF %errorlevel% EQU 0 GOTO Vista

VER | find "7" > nul
IF %errorlevel% EQU 0 GOTO 7

Else Goto ERROR



:95
Set OS_Version=Windows 95
GOTO :EOF

:98
set OS_Version=Windows 98
Goto EOF

:ME
set OS_Version=Windows ME
Goto EOF

:XP
Set OS_Version=Windows XP
Goto EOF

:2000
Set OS_Version=Windows 2000
Goto EOF

:NT
Set OS_Version=Windows NT
Goto EOF

:Vista
Set OS_Version=Windows Vista
Goto EOF

:7
Set OS_Version
Goto EOF

:ERROR
cls
Echo.
Echo Sorry. Windows has encountered a fatal script problem and must terminate.
Echo The Operating System you are running is unknown.
Echo.
Goto EOF

:EOF (End-of-file)
cls
exit /b

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KYA	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 16 Nov, 2009 - 06:57 PM Post #15
#include <nerd.h> Joined: 14 Sep, 2007 Posts: 11,489 Thanked: 508 times Dream Kudos: 2875 Expert In: C, C++, Java My Contributions	Looks like you already got it, but if you wanted to explore other avenues, you could use some of the Windows functions for more specific information: CODE int main () { OSVERSIONINFO info; info.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(OSVERSIONINFO); if(!GetVersionEx(&info)){cout << "Failed!\n\n";} cout << "Build number: " << info.dwBuildNumber << endl; cout << "Major versionr: " << info.dwMajorVersion << endl; cout << "Minor version: " << info.dwMinorVersion << endl; cout << "Platform id: " << info.dwPlatformId << endl; cout << "Size of this: " << info.dwOSVersionInfoSize << endl; return 0; } from here
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Gorian	RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script 16 Nov, 2009 - 10:12 PM Post #16
ninja DIC Joined: 28 Jun, 2008 Posts: 711 Thanked: 8 times Dream Kudos: 125 My Contributions	Thanks KYA! I need to fix it anyway though, it doesn't work with Vista, and probably not 7. I may look into that.
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RE: Find What OS You Are Running, With A Script

17 Nov, 2009 - 04:20 PM

Post #17

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Okay, So last revision? I think I covered the Major ones.... Not any Server OS's though...

but it covers Vista and 7 in addition

batch


:: OS Version - To Find what version of Windows is running

@ECHO OFF


::Find Windows

::Windows 95
VER | find /i "4.0" > nul
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO 95

::Windows 98
VER | find /i "4.10" > nul
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO 98

::Windows ME
VER | find /i "4.9" > nul 
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO ME

::Windows 2000
VER | find /i "5.0" > nul 
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO 2000

::Windows XP
VER | find "5.1" > nul
IF %errorlevel% == 0 GOTO XP

::Windows Vista
VER | find /i "6.0" > nul
IF %errorlevel% == 0 GOTO Vista

::Windows 7
VER | find "6.1" > nul
IF %errorlevel% == 0 GOTO 7

Else Goto ERROR



:95
Set OS_Version=Windows 95
GOTO :EOF

:98
set OS_Version=Windows 98
Goto EOF

:ME
set OS_Version=Windows ME
Goto EOF

:2000
Set OS_Version=Windows 2000
Goto EOF

:XP
Set OS_Version=Windows XP
Goto EOF

:Vista
Set OS_Version=Windows Vista
Goto EOF

:7
Set OS_Version=Windows 7
Goto EOF

:ERROR
cls
Echo.
Echo Sorry. Windows has encountered a fatal script problem and must terminate.
Echo The Operating System you are running is unknown.
Echo.
Goto EOF

:EOF
cls
exit /b