Re: [PLUG] Determining Debian/Ubuntu distro and release?

[jim fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org>]

Quick and dirty

cat /etc/apt/sources.list | cut -f4 -d '/'



On 3/29/09, sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:
> hiya,
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:12:14PM -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
>> So far I have:
>>
>> # Release code name (should be 5 lines)
>> codename=$(perl -ne 'print qq($1\n) if
>> m!^deb.*?(?:debian|ubuntu)/\s+(\w+)\s+main!;' /etc/apt/sources.list)
>> [ -n "$codename" ] || {
>>      echo "Release codename not set, 'export codename=name' before
>> running..."
>>      exit 2
>> }
>
> btw, this will get interesting results if you have a system that has
> sources.list entries referencing both (for example i have deb-src entries
> for ubuntu on my debian system for various reasons).
>
> but i can suggest something a bit easier anyway :)
>
> rangda[/home/sean] lsb_release --short --id
> :)
> Debian
> rangda[/home/sean] lsb_release --short --description
> :)
> Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
> rangda[/home/sean] lsb_release --short --release
> :)
> 5.0
> rangda[/home/sean] lsb_release --short --codename
> :)
> lenny
>
> note that this might not be 100% accurate (i.e. above it says lenny but
> my system is squeeze/sid), but that's the best "vendor supported way" afaik.
>
>
> 	sean
>


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