OS evaluate in bash script

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Published on 2011-03-11T08:28:23Z Indexed on 2011/03/11 16:19 UTC
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i was thinking in way that before run my script , evaluate which operating system that user use ubuntu or solaris , am using this because there is some differences
in command option in each OS such as sed .. , i was trying the following :

sysEval=`grep "ubuntu" | uname -a`

if [ sysEval ]; then

.......some command 

else ....... some command
fi

NOTE That my script will run only in ubuntu or solaris
seems not working !

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