[PLUG] Checking Linux Flavor

[Terry Griffin]

If the distro is LSB compatible *and* if the LSB utilities are installed
you can do this:

    lsb_release -d

See man page lsb_release(1) for other options.

Terry

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:03:42PM -0700, 
dan at fiddlers-green.info wrote:
> All,
> 
> Do you guys know of a standard way of checking which flavor of linux your
> running?  I know redhat and Suse use a Redhat-release and Suse-release file in
> etc, but what about other flavors? What do you usually do to determine the
> linux flavor that a script is running on?
> 
> thanks,
> Dan H.
> 
> 
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