Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

["Oliver Schneider" <Borbarad@gmxpro.net>]

Is something on the lines of:


cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep '^deb '|grep 'http://security\.'|head -n 1|grep -o 'debian|ubuntu'


a safe idea or does it already make too many assumptions?

Otherwise, what methods do you use to tell them apart from the shell?


Thanks,

// Oliver
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