Finding out the OS distribution name

[Ben Darnell]

In article <199910212239.IAA31097 at piglet.dstc.edu.au>, David Arnold wrote:
>-->"Marc-Andre" == M -A Lemburg <mal at lemburg.com> writes:
>
>  Marc-Andre> On SuSE Linux there's a file /etc/SuSE-release which
>  Marc-Andre> tells me the version etc.
>
>on Debian GNU/Linux the file /etc/debian_version contains the
>distribution version number (ie. 2.1 for my local system).
>
>   > cat /etc/debian_version 
>   2.1
>   > 

If you're running unstable, you get the version name instead of number:
% cat /etc/debian_version
potato
%

-Ben

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