Re: OT: How to match a substring?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Gregory Seidman 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
> } > 
> } > if {the first word of "uname -a" is Linux}
> } 
>
> if expr "`uname -a`" : 'Linux ' > /dev/null
>  

Thanks!

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Kent