need a good way to determine the OS from a BASH script

[Digimer]

On 03/22/2011 11:07 AM, Vic Gedris wrote:
> "uname" is your friend for this.
> 
> $ uname
> Linux
> 
> $ uname
> SunOS
> 
> ..etc..  Not sure what it reports for MacOS...

OS X returns the name of the OS X release (ie: Darwin), and no
/etc/issue exists. Look into /etc/lsb_release (man 1 lsb_release).

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