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| Summary: | [feature-request] Please add a simple version command | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Alexey Eremenko <al4321> |
| Component: | Basesystem | Assignee: | Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | aj |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Found By: | Third Party Developer/Partner | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
Common practice with all UNICES is `uname -a' For SuSE a test -e /etc/SuSE-release && cat /etc/SuSE-release is enough. well, issuing "test -e /etc/SuSE-release && cat /etc/SuSE-release" such a long commands for newbie/DOS users is *too much*. The "ver" command is exactly for these type of users. (I know you will wonder, but there are still DOS users around existing :) ) Thorsten, what do you think? We have it in a well documented format: lsb_release -d (or -a) Available on all LSB conform Linux Distributions, no need to reinvent the wheel again: lsb_release -d Description: SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) python -c "import platform; print platform.dist()" ;-) ( as another way ) |
All other OSes I have tried until now, (DOS & Windows, all versions) have 1 simple command to know what OS I'm running now- this command is called "ver". I ask SUSE developers to add this command to SUSE 10.1 it can be done with 4 lines of bash code: linux:/ # cat > /bin/ver << "EOF" > head -n1 /etc/SuSE-release > EOF linux:/ # chmod a+rx /bin/ver that way, a user after typing "ver" will see with what OS he/she working now.