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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Determine Linux Version. Post 92528 by vino on Monday 12th of December 2005 10:16:30 AM

12-12-2005

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Check this post- which machine. The script in that detects your OS version.

Yet another script I found on the net.

Code:

 # Determine the Linux distribution and version that is being run.
   #
   # Check for GNU/Linux distributions
   if [ -f /etc/SuSE-release ]; then
     DISTRIBUTION="suse"
   elif [ -f /etc/UnitedLinux-release ]; then
     DISTRIBUTION="united"
  elif [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then
    DISTRIBUTION="debian"
  elif [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
    a=`grep -i 'red.*hat.*enterprise.*linux' /etc/redhat-release`
    if test $? = 0; then
      DISTRIBUTION=rhel
    else
      a=`grep -i 'red.*hat.*linux' /etc/redhat-release`
      if test $? = 0; then
        DISTRIBUTION=rh
      else
        a=`grep -i 'cern.*e.*linux' /etc/redhat-release`
        if test $? = 0; then
          DISTRIBUTION=cel
        else
          a=`grep -i 'scientific linux cern' /etc/redhat-release`
          if test $? = 0; then
            DISTRIBUTION=slc
          else
            DISTRIBUTION="unknown"
          fi
        fi
      fi
    fi
  else
    DISTRIBUTION="unknown"
  fi

  ###    VERSION=`rpm -q redhat-release | sed -e 's#redhat[-]release[-]##'`

  case ${DISTRIBUTION} in
  rh|cel|rhel)
      VERSION=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed -e 's#[^0-9]##g' -e 's#7[0-2]#73#'`
      ;;
  slc)
      VERSION=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed -e 's#[^0-9]##g' | cut -c1`
      ;;
  debian)
      VERSION=`cat /etc/debian_version`
      if [ ${VERSION} = "testing/unstable" ]; then
          # The debian testing/unstable version must be translated into
          # a numeric version number, but no number makes sense so just
          # remove the version all together.
          VERSION=""
      fi
      ;;
  suse)
      VERSION=`cat /etc/SuSE-release | grep 'VERSION' | sed  -e 's#[^0-9]##g'`
      ;;
  united)
      VERSION=`cat /etc/UnitedLinux-release`
      ;;
  *)
      VERSION='00'
      ;;
  esac;

  echo ${DISTRIBUTION}${VERSION}

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linux::distribution

Linux::Distribution(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Linux::Distribution(3pm)

NAME

       Linux::Distribution - Perl extension to detect on which Linux distribution we are running.

SYNOPSIS

	 use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);

	 if(my $distro = distribution_name) {
	       my $version = distribution_version();
	       print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
	 } else {
	       print "distribution unknown
";
	 }

	 Or else do it OO:

	 use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);

	 my $linux = Linux::Distribution->new;
	 if(my $distro = $linux->distribution_name()) {
	       my $version = $linux->distribution_version();
	       print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
	 } else {
	       print "distribution unknown
";
	 }

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple module that tries to guess on what linux distribution we are running by looking for release's files in /etc.  It now looks
       for 'lsb-release' first as that should be the most correct and adds ubuntu support.  Secondly, it will look for the distro specific files.

       It currently recognizes slackware, debian, suse, fedora, redhat, turbolinux, yellowdog, knoppix, mandrake, conectiva, immunix, tinysofa,
       va-linux, trustix, adamantix, yoper, arch-linux, libranet, gentoo, ubuntu, scientific, oracle enterprise linux and redflag.

       It has function to get the version for debian, suse, fedora, redhat, gentoo, slackware, scientific, oracle enterprise linux, redflag and
       ubuntu(lsb). People running unsupported distro's are greatly encouraged to submit patches :-)

   EXPORT
       None by default.

TODO

       Add the capability of recognize the version of the distribution for all recognized distributions.

AUTHORS

       Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com>, <http://chorny.net> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net> Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-18						  Linux::Distribution(3pm)

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