Re: OT: How to match a substring?

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes:

> if {the first word of "uname -a" is Linux}
>  then echo "You're logging into Linux"
> else
>  echo "You're logging into something else, probably Solaris"
> fi

For yet another approach:

case `uname -a` in
  Linux*)
    echo "You're logging into Linux"
    ;;
  *)
    echo "You're logging into something else, probably Solaris"
    ;;
esac

Which has the minor advantage of only using shell primitives, aside
from the call out to uname itself.

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