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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com