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Alex, what you really want to look at is the file /etc/*-release. It has several lines describing the current Linux distro that your running (see release-files...

I agree the perl route is better ... it also works from within a shell as well. I was just trying to answer the original question, there may be other reasons as to why they need it to be part of a...

The TL comes from my SA ... sorry

intersting .. must be more than platform ... because I tested it on AIX (5.3 TL05) and Kubunto (7.10) and it worked ...

I tried my script under ksh, bash, and sh ... all worked with the cat $1 | sed .... > $1 approach ....

Which shell were you using that resulted in an empty file?

Your approach will work, just...

I use Kubuntu (not Ubuntu ... I voted other)

I have tried RH ... Mandrake/Mandriva ... Linspire .... SuSE and many other distros that no longer exist (used Lycoris for a couple of years)...

I...

might help to understand what it is you really mean by "what is not right"? A better question would be .... After I run the script my text file is empty or it gives me such and such results and I am...