Trying to find the files that contain distro information for my bash script

ethics · 07-03-2006, 06:11 PM

Hello all,

Well this didn't seem to fit very well into the other forums, so i figured it's general

Basically as a pet project of mine i'm creating a bash script that lists all sorts of system information, you know, kernel, processor, memory, HD space, etc etc

I'm onto the distro bit, writing it in to check for a file and output depending which file it finds is fine, but what are the files? i've been googling and searching here without much success, i only have arch, and the info is in /etc/arch-release and i know that redhat (and fedora?) use /etc/redhat-release so it would be safe to assume that most systems use this as a seudo-standard? i put things like /etc/debian-release and /etc/suse-release and got nowt.

What i am after is for you guys to post the location of your distro info for your system. Obviously i don't need 20 posts telling me the same thing

Cheers very much people

gilead · 07-03-2006, 06:13 PM

I have /etc/slackware-version on my system.

druuna · 07-03-2006, 06:20 PM

Hi,

For machines running LFS:

/etc/lfs-release

ethics · 07-03-2006, 06:24 PM

Thanks alot guys, keep em coming

lebabyg · 07-03-2006, 06:48 PM

Sorry, hit reply instead of new post ;(. Need a moderator to remove this totally irrelevant post.

spirit receiver · 07-04-2006, 05:48 AM

Code:

ada@barnabas:/etc> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586)
VERSION = 10.1