[CentOS-devel] /etc/redhat-release

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> On 06/10/2014 06:01 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> lsb-release is useless, it pipes out the text read from /etc/redhat-release
>
> but lsb-release will give you relevant content even if you are on a
> distro that has no /etc/redhat-release
>
> which is kind of the point of having a single tool that can be used
> across distros.

How is running a program that isn't there any more useful than reading
a file that isn't there?

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