Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BFA4DE4.1090505@decodon.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:34:44 +0100 From: Frank-Michael Moser Organization: DECODON GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: OSTYPE missing References: <200111192223430090.00F20FC3@mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My approach is the following: a) If possible simply export OSTYPE in /etc/profile or b) export OSTYPE="$(uname | cut -d _ -f 1 | tr [:upper:] [:lower:])" where you need it -- ------------------------------------------------------------ DECODON GmbH phone: +49(0)3834 515231 W.-Rathenau-Str. 49a fax: +49(0)3834 515239 17489 Greifswald email: moser@decodon.com Germany web: www.decodon.com ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/