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LSB_RELEASE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
LICENSE

NAME

lsb_release - print distribution-specific information (minimal implementation).

SYNOPSIS

lsb_release [options]

DESCRIPTION

This is a bare-bones version of the lsb_release command, implemented as a tiny POSIX shell script (less than 100 lines of commented code).

Instead of using LSB packages, this version of lsb_release uses the information in /etc/os-release and /usr/lib/os-release . Nevertheless, the output of this version is byte-for-byte compatible with the Python-based version provided by Debian and its derivatives.

Using this implementation it is possible to avoid installing Python in a base OS image while still retaining compatibility with older scripts that expect lsb_release to exist.

OPTIONS

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ("--"). A summary of options are included below.
-h , --help

Show a help message with a list of options and exit.

-v , --version

Show LSB modules this system supports.

-i , --id

Show distributor ID.

-d , --description

Show description of this distribution.

-r , --release

Show release number of this distribution.

-c , --codename

Show code name of this distribution.

-a , --all

Show all of the above information.

-s , --short

Show requested information in short format.

FILES

/usr/lib/os-release

Distribution-provided file with operating system identification data.

/etc/os-release

Machine-specific file with operating system identification data. If present, /etc/os-release is read instead of /usr/lib/os-release .

AUTHOR

Gioele Barabucci <https://gioele.io>

LICENSE

This implementation of lsb_release is free software released under the terms of the ISC license.