Command to tell whether it ubuntu and mac

[Hal Burgiss]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
> > Peng Yu wrote:
> >
> >> I want to make a script work for both mac and ubuntu. Is there a
> >> command that I can tell me whether I'm on an ubuntu or on a mac?
> >
>

uname would probably give you what you need.

 $ uname -o
GNU/Linux

On my Macbook, I get something like 'Darwin'. YMMV.

$ uname -o |grep Linux>/dev/null && is_linux=true || is_linux=false
$ echo $is_linux
true

-- 
Hal
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