Re: How to check Solaris version in a script?

Dan Foster wrote:
In article <449f70b2$0$9370$baae4c71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sun_Powered <sun_powered@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The uname command returns SunOS 5.1 (or some other number) but that doesn't tell me if it's Solaris 8, 9, or 10 on that machine.

I need to something that I can use in a script.


Sure thing. Here you go:

#!/bin/sh

# Get OS version
osver=`uname -r`

# Check OS version
if [ ${osver} = "5.8" ]; then
echo "Solaris 8"
elif [ ${osver} = "5.9" ]; then
echo "Solaris 9"
elif [ ${osver} = "5.10" ]; then
echo "Solaris 10"
else
echo "Unknown or unsupported OS version"
fi

# We're done, let user know this script completed successfully
exit 0

Modify as you need.


Thanks in advance!


You're welcome.

New to Solaris? Might want to read the Solaris FAQ here:

http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html

See the answer to question 1.5.

It has a table that lists Solaris version and its corresponding SunOS
version number (the uname -r output).

If you're new to Solaris, you *definitely* want to read the whole FAQ,
from start to finish... and re-read it as many times as you need to. It
helped me a lot 10 years ago.

-Dan

Thanks a lot for the script and the FAQ link, Dan!!

I'll be sure to read it. :)
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