I don't think Base.DevNull works for this at present, it only works for redirecting streams.
On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 8:54:47 PM UTC, Yichao Yu wrote: > > Also > http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/?highlight=devnull#Base.DevNull > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Jacob Quinn <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > See here: > > > http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/?highlight=windows#Base.@windows > > > > > There are also the > > > > @windows_only ...code... > > @unix_only ...code.... > > @osx_only ...code.... > > @linux_only ....code... > > > > Or the variable name `OS_NAME` that will return the OS name as a symbol. > > > > Plenty of options :) > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Ben Ward <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> How can I check the OS in Julia? I thought it may be in the Getting > Around > >> section of the reference manual but it's not. Basically I'd like to > check > >> the OS to see if I should write to /dev/null or just NUL in the case of > >> windows. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Ben. > > > > >
