Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] linux-gnu
Date: Thursday, 22 Oct 2020, 16:11:49

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Dumb question but in the specs your first example expands $OSTYPE.
    > However, when I run the staff solution, $OSTYPE is not expanded (as it
    > seems like OSTYPE is not in env) yet $OSTYPE is expanded on the command
    > line. Why is this the case?
    ...
    > Also, I wrote "$OSTYPE" in the subject line and it got expanded to
    > "linux-gnu." That's quite funny.

Apparently not all shells define the environmental
variable OSTYPE.

--Stan-