Determining linux distribution

[James Knott]

Stephen Allen wrote:
> 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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