newbie:trying to read in stdoutput of commands under various*nixes

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

googleboy wrote:

> Thanks for the response, Tim.  This got me on the right track.

That's the aim. You were just missing a critical piece, and being
confused by the fact that it was printing "Linux" as you expected it to
...

> What I actually needed was to do something like
> 
> sysName = pin.read()
> 
> so that I can compare the value of sysName with the srtong "Linux\n"
> or "OpenBSD\n" and choose to run the rest of my application
> accordingly.  (slightly different syntax depending on which system the
> thing I am writing is to run,  y'see).

You may want to strip() the data returned so you can compare directly
against "Linux" and "OpenBSD" (rather than having to include a newline
in the comparison string).

Tim Delaney