Which OS Type
Prentis Brooks
prentis@aol.net
Fri Apr 5 04:40:00 GMT 2002
uname -s
If it is a Windows box and that command works :) it would have the
string "cygwin". Most linux dists say Linux. You can use -a instead of
-s to get all of the data from the uname.
Experimentation with that command would give you the most benefit.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Gupta, Sanjay wrote:
> Is there any command to find out which Operating System I am using.
> Basically, I need to know whether the OS is Windows type or Unix Type. The
> Unix type could be any Unix e.g. Sun , HP etc , Linux etc.
>
> I am writing a shell script and if the shell script is run under windows
> environment using cygwin, then I have to take care of some file naming
> conventions for oracle sqlplus command under windows
> and if the script run under unix then I have use filenames, path names
> for sqlplus command in unix.
> I know uname command, but is there any other command which can be more
> useful in my case.
>
> example :-
> sqlplus command in windows using cygwin.
>
> sqlplus scott/tiger
> @c:\mydir\test.sql
>
> the samething in unix
>
> sqlplus scott/tiger
> @/usr/mydir/test.sql
>
> Thanks
> Sanjay
>
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