Re: command to find the flavour of linux



On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:02:46 -0800, palemmahesh wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a requirement to find the flavour of Linux. Iam working on
> Suse Linux, I checked all the environment variables and the systsem
> properties and all are saying the os name is Linux.
>
> In some program I need to copy a file to a location dependeing on
> flavour of linux. How can I find whether it is suse linux or not using
> commands...Or do we have specific file that will exists only Suse
> flavour, so that I can check the existsence of it.
>
> Please help me.
>
> Thanks,
> Mahesh

/proc/version usually has useful information.

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