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I have a shell script in which the line

if [ $ARCH = "Solaris" ]
   then ...

This variable was not set on a Solaris machine and caused
some problems.  Can I check something else?

The existance of /vmunix?

Shawn.

Try looking at the output from "uname -r" and see if you can
make a test from that.

Quote:>I have a shell script in which the line

>if [ $ARCH = "Solaris" ]
>   then ...

>This variable was not set on a Solaris machine and caused
>some problems.  Can I check something else?

>The existance of /vmunix?

>Shawn.

if [ "`uname -r | awk -F. '{print $1}'`" = "5" ] ; then ... ; fi

Andrey

|I have a shell script in which the line
|
|if [ $ARCH = "Solaris" ]
|   then ...
|
|This variable was not set on a Solaris machine and caused
|some problems.  Can I check something else?

Try using the output of uname.  On SunOS / Solaris, `uname` will
be "SunOS" (as opposed to something like "AIX", "HP-UX", etc.),
and `uname -r` will give a version number like "4.1.3_U1" or "5.5.1".

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Quote:>You probably can do

>if [ "`uname -r | awk -F. '{print $1}'`" = "5" ] ; then ... ; fi

You really want to look at "uname -s" as well, e.g. doing "uname -sr"
and looking for "SunOS 5.*" if you want to see whether you're on Solaris
2.x (and "SunOS 4.*" for Solaris 1.x).

Hope this helps

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