Finding out the OS distribution name
Ben Darnell
bgdarnel at my-deja.com
Thu Oct 21 19:33:22 EDT 1999
In article <199910212239.IAA31097 at piglet.dstc.edu.au>, David Arnold wrote:
>-->"Marc-Andre" == M -A Lemburg <mal at lemburg.com> writes:
>
> Marc-Andre> On SuSE Linux there's a file /etc/SuSE-release which
> Marc-Andre> tells me the version etc.
>
>on Debian GNU/Linux the file /etc/debian_version contains the
>distribution version number (ie. 2.1 for my local system).
>
> > cat /etc/debian_version
> 2.1
> >
If you're running unstable, you get the version name instead of number:
% cat /etc/debian_version
potato
%
-Ben
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