How do I get distro-info

[freefox]

Are there some command line tool that shows distro and version of distro?

I would like to

#!/whatever shell 
if (opensuse)
  # stuff
elseif (ubuntu)
  # other stuff
endif

[TaraIkeda]

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

[ram88]

cat /etc/SuSE-release

will display you the architecture and the version.

[hcvv]

smweb@boven:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 10.3 (i586)
VERSION = 10.3
smweb@boven:~>

[hcvv]

Originally Posted by TaraIkeda

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

And how is he suposed to use that information in the rest of his script?

[freefox]

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

[freefox]

Thanks. That solves the suse part. But I would like a more generic solution, telling which distro it is too. suse or ubuntu or ...

More ideas, please.

[FeatherMonkey]

Not sure there is a more generic though neither am I sure you can just rely on this. cat /etc/*-release really should work but what if for some reason it is empty? Any way this has some and has a few suggestions at some wildcards that may catch most.

release-files

[ab@novell.com]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

If the aforementioned file exists, then SUSE. If not, then test for
something Ubuntu-specific. What that is, though, is probably something to
be found in an Ubuntu forum. A quick Google search as follows:

ubuntu version command line

turned up several hits that answered the question (`cat /etc/issue`) which
also works on my SUSE box so maybe that is a better distribution-agnostic
way to get which distro you are on.

Good luck.





freefox wrote:
> Thanks. That solves the suse part. But I would like a more generic
> solution, telling which distro it is too. suse or ubuntu or ...
>
> More ideas, please.
>
>
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[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by freefox

Thanks. That solves the suse part. But I would like a more generic
solution, telling which distro it is too. suse or ubuntu or ...

More ideas, please.

Hi
Use the lsb_release command eg in my sig I use;

MYSYSTEM=`lsb_release -sd |cut -f2 -d ""\"`

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