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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Checking OS Type on Servers Post 302606430 by fpmurphy on Sunday 11th of March 2012 11:56:56 AM
Old 03-11-2012
Even in Linux there is no simple approach to getting that information. Some Linux distributions "lie" about their release name. Some use lsb-release. The C code we use to determine OS and release information is a couple of hundred lines of code.
 

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lsb_release(1)						      General Commands Manual						    lsb_release(1)

NAME
lsb_release - print distribution-specific information SYNOPSIS
lsb_release [options] DESCRIPTION
The lsb_release command provides certain LSB (Linux Standard Base) and distribution-specific information. If no options are given, the -v option is assumed. OPTIONS
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of options are included below. -v, --version Show the version of the LSB against which your current installation is compliant. The version is expressed as a colon separated list of LSB module descriptions. -i, --id Display the distributor's ID. -d, --description Display a description of the currently installed distribution. -r, --release Display the release number of the currently installed distribution. -c, --codename Display the code name of the currently installed distribution. -a, --all Display all of the above information. -s, --short Use the short output format for any information displayed. This format omits the leading header(s). -h, --help Show summary of options. NOTES
This is a reimplementation of the lsb_release command provided by the Free Standards Group. Any bugs are solely the responsibility of the author below. Detection of systems using a mix of packages from various distributions or releases is something of a black art; the current heuristic tends to assume that the installation is of the earliest distribution which is still being used by apt but that heuristic is subject to error. SEE ALSO
lsb(8) AUTHOR
Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>. lsb_release(1)
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