[COFF] What is your prompt?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 27 December 2021 at  9:52:24 +0700, Rudi Blom wrote:
> My official status seems a bit unclear (although I'm getting paid :-) ) but
> unofficially I keep an eye on a lot of a customers servers. Ad-hoc shell
> scripts still have similar structure as I know how to 'cut and paste'.
>
> These scripts are run remotely via a 'homegrown' client-server setup. Many
> should run on different UNIX environments and therefore have near the
> beginning an OS check. Depending on that I can set PATH and anything else
> important.
>
> #
> # check what type of OS this system runs on
> #
> OST=`uname -m`

That's the architecture.  Wouldn't just `uname` be better?  I have:

  case `uname` in
  Linux)
    PATH=.:~:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bitkeeper:/Photos/Tools
    export SHELL=/bin/bash
    ;;

  NetBSD)
    PATH=.:~:/usr/pkg/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bitkeeper:/usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin:~:/Photos/Tools
    export SHELL=/usr/pkg/bin/bash
    ;;

  FreeBSD)
    PATH=.:~:/home/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/Photos/Tools:~
    export SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
    ;;
...

And yes, lm, if you're looking, there's really a /usr/local/bitkeeper
in there.  It's been years, but I don't tidy these things up very
often.  I only just removed mosaic from my fvwm2 config menus.

Greg
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