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Re: How would a script recognize Linux?

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From: Cliff Bedore
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 12:39
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In article <9503010424.aa10380@srv150a.sco.com>, Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.COM> writes:
>Peter Funk wrote:
>
>> One precaution must be taken:  SCO Unix has a broken uname program:
>> 'uname -s' returns the node name rather than "SCO" or "Unix", so in
>> order to adjust a script to recognize such a weird platform also,
>> it should contain something like this :
>> 
>>    OS=`uname -s`
>>    case $OS in
>>        HP-Ux) ..... ;;
>>        IRIX)  ..... ;;
>>        Linux) ..... ;;
>>        SunOS) ..... ;;
>>        XENIX) .... ;;
>>        *) if [ "$OS" = `uname -n` ]
>> 	  then OS=SCOUNIX
>> 	  else OS=VanillaUnix
>> 	  fi ;;
>>    esac
>
>This will be fixed in our next release, which will use the symbol
>"SCO_SV".  So you might want to use that symbol to make the transition
>smoother.  i.e.:   then OS=SCO_SV
>
>I also don't remember whether SCO XENIX actually gives a reasonable
>response to `uname -s`, and I don't have a XENIX machine handy to test
>right now.
>
>>Bela<

My SCO XENIX 2.3.3 returns XENIX for uname -s

Cliff
cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com
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Subject: Re: How would a script recognize Linux?
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