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

[jim fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org>]

 cat /etc/apt/sources.list | cut -f5 -d '/'

better ^^

On 3/29/09, jim fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org> wrote:
> 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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