Re: Darwin darwin or darwin6.0

[William H. Magill]

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 11:34 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:

What is the "official" name of the operating system under MacOS neXt?

Where does perl get it?

uname -a
Darwin dun 6.2 Darwin Kernel Version 6.2: Tue Nov 5 22:00:03 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.12.2.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

I don't know why perl downcases it.
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For multi-os scripts in ksh I use :

opsys=`uname -a | cut -d" " -f1`
print " opsys = $opsys"
case $opsys in
OSF1)
SunOS)
HP-UX)
AIX)
Darwin|darwin)
esac
etc...

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