bash condition if OS ?

[Chris Gow]

I'm not a script writer, but we have a number of bash scripts here and
we appear to use uname to determine what we're running on.

Seems to work for cygwin/solaris/linux.

-- chris

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 10:59, 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
> 
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