bash condition if OS ?

[Ladislav Svatos]

On April 7, 2004 10:59 am, Lloyd Budd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to combine some of my '.bash_profile's and '.bashrc's from
> various OSs into one file of each.  I have condition on hostname, but
> would like to generalize some parts on OS.  $OSTYPE is useful, though
> some OSs have the annoying habit of including version # in OSTYPE.  Is
> there a better variable to use?  Short of using an external prog I
> cannot seem to figure out how to  use Bash's reg exp to check for
> substring at beginning of the string. ?
>
> Thank you,
> Lloyd
>
  uname -s

Lada
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