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Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc

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Martin Gregorie wrote:
> Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> This is the cross-distribution current method, parsing /etc/os-release.
>> If all those *buntu flavours yield the same result, it is because they
>> are intended to be the same distribution. What desktop they use by
>> default is irrelevant.
> 
> Does parsing /proc/version do any better?
> 
> It looks potentially useful for Fedora, where it shows the Fedora version
> and build as well as the kernel version, so probably distinguishes it
> from RHEL, but totally useless for RaspberryPi, where it only shows the
> kernel version.
> 
> FWIW both also identify the gcc version .
>   
You could dissect/examine/parse the inxi script to see what its System 
option

inxi -S

... uses.  Eg Mint 19.1 Cinnamon:

$ inxi -S
System:
   Host: mint Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64
   Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa


https://github.com/smxi/inxi



-- 
Mike Easter

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Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2018-10-01 20:25 +0100
  Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2018-10-01 20:42 +0100
  Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-10-01 21:50 +0200
  Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-01 19:51 +0000
  Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-10-02 10:25 +0100
    Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-10-02 10:44 +0000
  Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc J G Miller <miller@yoyo.org> - 2018-12-28 22:04 +0000
    Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2018-12-29 01:13 +0000
  Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-12-29 03:54 +0100
    Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-02-08 18:53 +0000
      Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-02-08 11:20 -0800
        Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-02-08 12:15 -0800
        Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-02-08 20:54 +0000
          Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-02-08 13:02 -0800
          Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Pedro Valdez <pedro1492@lycos.com> - 2019-02-10 03:46 -0800
            Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-02-10 08:23 -0500
      Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-09 05:43 +0100
      Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2019-02-11 14:58 +0000
        Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-02-11 11:56 -0500

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