Case Help

[Cameron Simpson]

On 31Aug2006 11:35, David Drury <idavid at atdotdotnet.net> wrote:
| Running Ubuntu 6, which has a backup agent installed on it. I'm trying to 
| apply a service pack, however the patch application is failing because it 
| is runing the "uname -s" command which is returning "Linux" rather than 
| "linux" 
| I think a workaround would be to create a script that takes the output from 
| "uname -s" and lowers the case, but returns anything else the same, as the 
| alternative is to edit a large number orf patch scripts to change the case. 

Sure. Note the location of uname as reported by "which uname".
Make a directory called for example "hackbin".
Create a shell script in there called "uname", like this:

  #!/bin/sh -u
  realuname=/path/to/real/uname
  case "$*" in
    -s) $realuname -s | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' ;;
    *)  exec $realuname ${1+"$@"} ;;
  esac

Then _prepend_ /full/path/to/hackbin to your $PATH and try running the
patch script.

Of course, for your special need that "... | tr ..." line could just be
"echo linux":-)

Cheers,
-- 
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