distro: Get info on the system's Linux distribution

In distro: Linux Distribution Properties

Description

Get info on the system's Linux distribution

Usage

distro()

Value

On Linux distributions, it returns a list of four elements:

• id, e.g. "ubuntu", "debian"

• version, e.g. "18.04", "7.7.1908"

• codename, e.g. "bionic", "bullseye"

• short_version, which for Ubuntu is the yy.mm version ("18.04") but for all other distributions is the major version number only ("7")

Not all fields are guaranteed to be defined on all systems. On non-Linux systems, the function returns NULL.

Examples

distro()

distro documentation built on Nov. 9, 2020, 5:10 p.m.