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In <D4KrMG.LFA@erie.ge.com> teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft) writes:
> >| If I was to write a script that would run on different unixes 
> >| how would I recognize Linux?
> >| Is uname good enough?
[...]
> Output of uname should be checked first. If the command exists then it
> will be sufficient to identify the system, whatever it is. If it doesn't
> exist then you should look for other stuff.

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

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