Re: How would a script recognize Linux?

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From: Bela Lubkin
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 12:24

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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<

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