Determining linux distribution

[Stephen Allen]

John Vetterli wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, dan sinclair wrote:
> 
>> You could try something like
>> cat /etc/*-release
>> Redhat, SuSe and Gentoo at least seem to stick a release file
>> in /etc....
> 
> 
> You might also want to try /etc/*-version.  Slackware has an 
> /etc/slackware-version file; this might work for some other distro too.
> 
> I know Debian has a /etc/debian-<something> file.

Wouldn't 'uname -a' return the desired info ?
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