[ale] Am I Linux?

Bob's ALE Mail transam at cavu.com
Wed Dec 11 23:16:13 EST 1996


An easy for a csh script to tell if it's running under Linux:

	if ( -e /etc/lilo || -e /sbin/lilo ) then

One also could test for the existence of /etc/version and grep for Linux in
it.  With the inappropriate syntax this could be used for other shells too.

Bob Toxen
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