How do I get distro-info

[hcvv]

Originally Posted by freefox

I tried to illustrate that with my psedo code block.
Depending on distro I would like different things to execute.

That was perfectly clear to most of us.

About the 'generic' solution. As there is almost no standard, there may be no 'generic' solution. A test on existence of e.g. /etc/SuSE-release and likewise for every taste you know about might be needed. I do know that (at least some years ago) there was /etc/redhat-release. Which shows that upper/lower case is also not handled the same by everyone.

The lsb_release (see man page) seems to follow the LSB and as such is likely to be more widely available.

When your 'generic' also involves Unix tastes, a test on uname -s will give you a first triage.

[hendersj]

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:56:01 +0000, TaraIkeda wrote:

> Well why use commandline when both Ubuntu and openSUSE offer a gui to
> identify the version?

Probably because the OP's writing a script and GUIs are notoriously bad
for inclusions in scripts used to automate things. ;-)

Jim

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openSUSE Forums Moderator

[cjcox]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 09:36 +0000, freefox wrote:
> Are there some command line tool that shows distro and version of
> distro?
>
> I would like to
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> #!/whatever shell
> if (opensuse)
> # stuff
> elseif (ubuntu)
> # other stuff
> endif
> --------------------
>
>

vers=`cat /etc/*elease`
if echo "$vers" | grep 'openSUSE' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ostype="OpenSUSE"
elif echo "$vers" | grep 'SUSE' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ostype="SUSE"
elif echo "$vers" | grep 'Red Hat' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ostype="Red-Hat"
elif echo "$vers" | grep 'Fedora' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ostype="Fedora"
elif echo "$vers" | grep 'Ubuntu' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ostype="Ubuntu"
elif echo "$vers" | grep 'CentOS' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ostype="CentOS"
fi

[hcvv]

I like

grep -i 'openSUSE';

instead of

grep 'openSUSE' >/dev/null 2>&1;

And you could make it into a loop

for string in 'openSUSE' 'SUSE' ...
do
done

Easy to expand with a new distribution then.

[tcubed_bus]

dmesg | grep -i "linux version"

Plus a bit more parsing...

[hcvv]

Originally Posted by hcvv

I like

grep -i 'openSUSE';

instead of

grep 'openSUSE' >/dev/null 2>&1;

For those thinking I am talking nuts here, they are correct.
I wanted to use the -q option to avoid any output and thus avoid to redirect it to /dev/null

grep -q

leaves you with the return code only and that is what we want here.

[freefox]

Thanks a lot to all of you.
Now I've got what I need.

/freefox

[caf4926]

kernelcruncher@openSUSE-11:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
VERSION = 11.2
kernelcruncher@openSUSE-11:~>