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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Detect Operating System Post 302770971 by mohtashims on Tuesday 19th of February 2013 07:46:34 AM
Old 02-19-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vikram_Tanwar12
Try
Code:
uname

command to know about the version.
I understand uname will do the job but I am not sure what and how to grep from the uname's output and i am not sure about the various ps command formats for various OSs.

Can you please help me with a short script ?
 

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UNAME(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  UNAME(3)

NAME
uname -- get system identification LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/utsname.h> int uname(struct utsname *name); DESCRIPTION
The uname() function stores nul-terminated strings of information identifying the current system into the structure referenced by name. The utsname structure is defined in the <sys/utsname.h> header file, and contains the following members: sysname Name of the operating system implementation. nodename Network name of this machine. release Release level of the operating system. version Version level of the operating system. machine Machine hardware platform. RETURN VALUES
If uname is successful, 0 is returned, otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
The uname() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions sysctl(3). SEE ALSO
uname(1), sysctl(3) STANDARDS
The uname() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
The uname function first appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD
March 30, 2011 BSD
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