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

[Digimer]

On 03/22/2011 01:11 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:06:18PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:15:39AM -0400, Digimer wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> How about uname -s or uname -o?
> 
> Or better yet:
> 
> cat /dev/null | cpp -dM
> 
> On linux you see something like:
> 
> #define linux 1
> 
> I am sure Mac OS X defines something similar.
> 
> Also Darwin is the name of the Mac OS X kernel, not a release.  All Mac
> OS X releases use a kernel named Darwin.

Good to know. I don't have an Apple myself, so I'd asked a friend to get
those answers. Thanks for clarifying.

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