http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/redhat/new/2010-03-16T13:24:22-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2010-03-16T13:24:22-07:00Gui Rhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4166241/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576676-how-to-detect-the-linux-distribution-from-an-initd/

<p style="color: grey"> Bash recipe 576676 by <a href="/recipes/users/4166241/">Gui R</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/bash/">bash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/redhat/">redhat</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>There is no trivial way to know what Linux you are running. Red Hat, SuSE, etc., each distribution has a different way to tell what version is installed.</p>