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1. If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by xecronix Aug 29, 2015
• 2500 views

cat /etc/*-release | grep ^NAME 

It should tell you the name of your Linux distribution. I need to know if it is accurate for your distro please. Also it should return only one line NAME=????.

Works on my box!

[ronald@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/*-release | grep ^NAME 
NAME=Fedora 

Thanks.

3. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by jmduro Aug 29, 2015
• 2510 views

I have one PC which is dedicated to virtiualization and runs Proxmox, so I can run many OSes without needing as much resources as full virtualization (Vmware, Virtualbox, etc), but only Lunix ones.

I will download many templates, 32-bit and 64-bit, to check many commands on various distributions.

5. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by jmduro Aug 29, 2015
• 2499 views

To find Linux Mint, you have to look in /etc/lsb-release:

/etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint 
/etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela" 

There is another option: cat /etc/issue.net

Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela 
Debian 7 Wheezy: Debian GNU/Linux 7 

But it fails on CentOS 7:

\S 
Kernel \r on an \m 

So there seems to be not only one method but a combination of many to identify Linux systems.

7. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by jmduro Aug 29, 2015
• 2457 views

To get it work correctly on Fedora, I had to add an option -L (follow links)

echo "/etc/issue.net:"$(cat /etc/issue.net); find -L /etc -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*-release" -exec grep -H -E "NAME|DISTRIB" {} \; 

The result is now correct

/etc/issue.net:Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel \r on an \m (\l) 
/etc/os-release:NAME=Fedora 
/etc/os-release:PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 22 (Twenty Two)" 
/etc/os-release:CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22" 

9. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by jmduro Aug 29, 2015
• 2453 views

Same problem for Slackware 13.37

/etc/issue.net: 
-bash: find: command not found 

root@slackware:/# cat /etc/slackware-version  
Slackware 13.37.0 

and Suse 13.1

cat: /etc/issue.net: No such file or directory 
/etc/issue.net: 

-bash-4.2# cat /etc/SuSE-brand  
BasedOnopenSUSE 
VERSION = 13.1 

11. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by xecronix Aug 29, 2015
• 2468 views

Awesome! I'll integrate the OS check into the project as soon as I get home. And I've created a github for the project.

13. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by xecronix Aug 31, 2015
• 2326 views

uname -a 
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 17 19:54:31 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 

This will give kernel info and some other helpful things but I would still need to parse the info to determine that it's a Fedora box.

At this point I'm thinking of scrapping the OS detection all together in favor of user configuration. Without too much effort I'm sure I can tell the difference between a Debian based distro and a RedHat based one. I might just leave it at that for now as that will cover the majority and serve my needs for the moment.

15. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by SDPringle Sep 01, 2015
• 2339 views

Linux Mint 17.0

$cat /etc/*-release | grep ^NAME 
cat: /etc/upstream-release: Is a directory 
NAME="Ubuntu" 

17. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by SDPringle Sep 01, 2015
• 2293 views

$cat /etc/*-release | grep ^NAME 
cat: /etc/upstream-release: Is a directory 
NAME="Ubuntu" 

Don't infer that because people are apparently typing the commands in verbatim that they do not know the other ways it could be done. It is faster and less error prone to copy and paste the challenge command and then paste the results. This is what people ought to do. We shouldn't debate command line style here.

Shawn Pringle

19. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by xecronix Sep 01, 2015
• 2253 views

I was actually trying to concat any file that matched the pattern *-release looking for NAME=. The hope was that no matter what the distro named the file, the NAME= pattern would find the name of distro. I found something using Google that put me on the path of this oneliner. Sadly, it turned out to be false for several reasons. First Mint actually supplements distro with their own release file. So, NAME= still means Ubuntu. That doesn't adversely affect the reason I wanted to know what distro but, it opened my eyes to other problems. As Jean-Marc pointed out in his responses, the simple one liner becomes a lot more complicated with the addition of Linux distros. Coupled with the fact that there may be multiple *-release files, there is also the possibility of *-release directories. At the moment, I'm not interested in those directories or content.

In any case, too me it seemed clearer to use cat | grep for what I wanted at the time. What I wanted to express with cat /etc/*-release | grep ^NAME was the following English expression.

"Somewhere in the /etc directory there should be a file that looks like *-release. Find the single line in whatever that file is that begins with NAME=. It holds the single value I'm interested in at the moment."

Unfortunately, this plan didn't work. So I revised my plan. I appreciate all of you and the time you took to answer my question.

21. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by jmduro Sep 02, 2015
• 2247 views

Try this:

include std/filesys.e 
include std/text.e 
include std/sequence.e 
include std/io.e 
include std/search.e 
include myLibs/myDebug.e 
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 
function readFile(sequence filename) 
  sequence s = read_lines(filename) 
  sequence content = {} 
  for i = 1 to length(s) do 
    sequence line = trim(s[i]) 
    if length(line)>0 then 
      sequence t = split(line, '=') 
      for j = 1 to length(t) do t[j] = dequote(trim(t[j])) end for 
      content = append(content, t ) 
    end if 
  end for 
  return content 
end function 
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 
function cat(sequence filename) 
  sequence s = read_file(filename) 
  return trim(s) 
end function 
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 
sequence s, short, long, release, description, name, version 
object o 
 
  long = "" 
  short = "" 
  if file_exists("/etc/lsb-release") then 
    s = readFile("/etc/lsb-release") 
    o = vlookup("DISTRIB_RELEASE", s, 1, 2) 
    if atom(o) then 
      release = vlookup("DISTRIB_CODENAME", s, 1, 2) 
    else 
      release = o 
    end if 
    o = vlookup("DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION", s, 1, 2) 
    if atom(o) then 
      description = vlookup("DISTRIB_CODENAME", s, 1, 2) 
    else 
      description = o 
    end if 
    if length(description) then 
      if length(release) then 
        long = description & " (" & release & ")" 
      else 
        long = description 
      end if 
    end if 
    o = vlookup("DISTRIB_ID", s, 1, 2) 
    if atom(o) then 
      short = "UnknownLSB" 
    else 
      short = match_replace(" ", o, "") 
    end if 
  else 
    if file_exists("/etc/debian_version") then 
      short = "Debian" 
      s = readFile("/etc/os-release") 
      name = vlookup("NAME", s, 1, 2) 
      version = vlookup("VERSION", s, 1, 2) 
      long = name & " " & version 
    -- RPM derived distributions may also have a redhat-release or 
    -- mandrake-release, so check their files first. 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/altlinux-release") then 
      short = "ALTLinux" 
      long = cat("/etc/altlinux-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/magic-release") then 
      short = "Magic" 
      long = cat("/etc/magic-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/blackPanther-release") then 
      short = "blackPanther" 
      long = cat("/etc/blackPanther-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/ark-release") then 
      short = "Ark" 
      long = cat("/etc/ark-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/arch-release") then 
      short = "Arch" 
      long = cat("/etc/arch-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/asplinux-release") then 
      short = "ASPLinux" 
      long = cat("/etc/asplinux-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/lvr-release") then 
      short = "LvR" 
      long = cat("/etc/lvr-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/caos-release") then 
      short = "cAos" 
      long = cat("/etc/caos-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/aurox-release") then 
      short = "Aurox" 
      long = cat("/etc/aurox-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/engarde-release") then 
      short = "EnGarde" 
      long = cat("/etc/engarde-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/vine-release") then 
      short = "Vine" 
      long = cat("/etc/vine-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/whitebox-release") then 
      short = "WhiteBox" 
      long = cat("/etc/whitebox-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/pld-release") then 
      short = "PLD" 
      long = cat("/etc/pld-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/startcom-release") then 
      short = "StartCom" 
      long = cat("/etc/startcom-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/trustix-release") then 
      short = "Trustix" 
      long = cat("/etc/trustix-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/openna-release") then 
      short = "OpenNA" 
      long = cat("/etc/openna-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/conectiva-release") then 
      short = "Conectiva" 
      long = cat("/etc/conectiva-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/mandrake-release") then 
      short = "Mandrake" 
      long = cat("/etc/mandrake-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/fedora-release") then 
      short = "Fedora" 
      long = cat("/etc/fedora-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/redhat-release") then 
      short = "RedHat" 
      long = cat("/etc/redhat-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/SuSE-release") then 
      short = "SuSE" 
      if file_exists("/etc/SuSE-release") then 
        long = cat("/etc/SuSE-release") 
      else 
        long = cat("/etc/SuSE-brand") 
      end if 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/gentoo-release") then 
      short = "Gentoo" 
      long = cat("/etc/gentoo-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/cobalt-release") then 
      short = "Cobalt" 
      long = cat("/etc/cobalt-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/yellowdog-release") then 
      short = "YellowDog" 
      long = cat("/etc/yellowdog-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/turbolinux-release") then 
      short = "Turbolinux" 
      long = cat("/etc/turbolinux-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/pardus-release") then 
      short = "Pardus" 
      long = cat("/etc/pardus-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/kanotix-version") then 
      short = "Kanotix" 
      long = cat("/etc/kanotix-version") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/slackware-version") then 
      short = "Slackware" 
      long = cat("/etc/slackware-version") 
    elsif file_exists("/sbin/pkgtool") then 
      short = "Slackware" 
      long="Slackware Linux" 
    elsif match("OpenLinux", "/etc/issue") then 
      short = "Caldera" 
      long="Caldera OpenLinux" 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/frugalware-release") then 
      short = "Frugalware Linux" 
      long = cat("/etc/frugalware-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/kdemar-release") then 
      short = "K-DEMar" 
      long = cat("/etc/kdemar-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/lfs-release") then  --Linux From Scratch 
      short = "LFS" 
      long = cat("/etc/lfs-release") 
    elsif file_exists("/etc/meego-release") then 
      short = "MeeGo" 
      long = cat("/etc/meego-release") 
    else 
      short = "Linux" 
      long = "unknown Linux distribution" 
    end if 
  end if 
 
puts(1, "Short name = " & short & "\n") 
puts(1, "Long name = " & long & "\n") 

It has not been tested on all those distributions, so if people could try it and share results, it would be fine.

Here is for Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela:

Short name = LinuxMint 
Long name = Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela (17.2) 

and for Fedora 22

Short name = Fedora 
Long name = Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) 

23. Re: If you're using linux can you run this command please?

• Posted by fizzpopsoft Sep 03, 2015
• 2186 views

I'll have a go on my Puppy, Centos 5.7 and 5.11 32 bits later today, when I boot them.
Funny quotes about Unix (Linix)... Loves standards, thats why there are so many of them
And contrary to popular belief, Unix is friendly - it just chooses who to be friendly with! :)