What is the "official" name of the operating system under MacOS neXt?
Where does perl get it? I need it so that I can write perl and shell scripts that can be tested on a Mac and then run under Solaris. I solicit comments on the most reliable way to keep things working at least until next week. >From Terminal or a BBEdit window: echo $OSTYPE darwin >From within a cron job: echo $OSTYPE >> $HOME/bin/cronlog darwin6.0 uname >> $HOME/bin/cronlog Darwin >From perl executed from terminal: print $^0 --> darwin >From perl executed from cron: print $^0 --> darwin >From a BBEdit worksheet or from terminal: perl -e 'print `uname`;' Darwin Using bash: if [ $(uname) = Darwin ] ; then works. Note the capital D. It fails with darwin. -- Applescript syntax is like English spelling: Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
