Re: Check the linux type?

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:20:47 -0700, SamG wrote:

Hi,

How do i check what linux type am i using from a script. Like ubuntu
or suse or fedora.

Sam

More and more often, we are seeing a file /etc/lsb-release - Linux
Standard Base release. So start with "cat /etc/lsb-release". If it's not
there, there is usually a file in /etc that will have release or version
in it's name, so maybe "ls /etc | grep -i version" and "ls /etc | grep -i
release" will turn up something.

.

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