On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 06/10/2014 04:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Daniel Ankers <md1clv at md1clv.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Fred, >>> I would have thought that "lsb_release -a" would be far more portable across >>> varying different distributions and versions. >> >> # lsb_release -a >> -bash: lsb_release: command not found >> >> Unmm???? >> > > things usually work best once you install them :) Yes, but executing things that aren't installed by default probably isn't good choice as a portable operation to determine your environment. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com