Re: OT: How to match a substring?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Steve Mayer wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:59:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>  
>
> > I need to run a test in a .bashrc startup script to see whether the 
> > machine the user is logging onto is a Solaris or a Linux box (the /home 
> > directory is shared between the two, and paths need to be modified 
> > according to which OS is being logged into).
> >
> > Something like this:
> >
> > if {the first word of "uname -a" is Linux}
> > then do something
> >    
>
> Kent,
>
>  Just use `uname -s`.  This will report back "Linux" on Linux and
>  "SunOS" on Solaris.
>  

Because that would be way too easy  :-)

Seriously, that solves my problem; thanks!

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Kent