lsb_release

lsb_release [options]

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.

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.

/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.

os-release(5)

Gioele Barabucci <https://gioele.io>

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