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Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> writes:
> I'm currently trying to patch Configure to tell you the Linux
> distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, others as folks supply the
> information), and I'm unsure of how to best parse RedHat's
> /etc/redhat-release file. I have the following 1 example:
>
> Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
>
> I'm guessing that the '6.1' is what would be most useful. Does anyone have
> a variety of Red Hat systems around or enough familiarity with Red Hat to
> say how stable that format is or give me other examples?
Here are some from the servers where I work:
release 4.1 (Vanderbilt)
release 5.0 (Hurricane)
release 5.1 (Manhattan)
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
I presume that /release (\d+\.\d+)/i would give you the version for
all of the above and any future reasonable changes.
Chip
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