Brian Inglis writes: > On 2022-02-08 15:01, julie77...@gmail.com wrote: >> Cygwin doesn't create an environment variable in bash to indicate that the >> platform is Cygwin under Windows. >> ... > > I have been switching env/OS/arch/triple dependent profile and rc files > and sections for years with: > > 64 $ echo $OSTYPE $OS $HOSTTYPE $MACHTYPE > cygwin Windows_NT x86_64 x86_64-unknown-cygwin > ...
When I don't know or can't remember what variable has the information I want, printenv is my first stop, e.g. 64> printenv | grep -i cygwin Cygwin=server PATH=... As Brian pointed out, that doesn't find what you need, because it only lists environment variables, but this does: 64> declare -p | grep -i cygwin declare -ar BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="4" [2]="12" [3]="3" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-unknown-cygwin") declare -x Cygwin="server" declare -- MACHTYPE="x86_64-unknown-cygwin" declare -- OSTYPE="cygwin" declare -x PATH=... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple