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Devel::CheckOS::Helpers::LinuxOSrelease(3) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Devel::CheckOS::Helpers::LinuxOSrelease(3) |
NAME¶
Devel::CheckOS::Helpers::LinuxOSrelease - functions to deal with /etc/os-release file
SYNOPSIS¶
use Devel::CheckOS::Helpers::LinuxOSrelease 'distributor_id'; my $id = distributor_id;
DESCRIPTION¶
This module exports functions to handle text files related to Debian-like distributions.
EXPORTED¶
The following subs are exported.
distributor_id¶
Retrieves and returns the distributor ID from the /etc/os-release file.
It is expected that the file exists, it is readable and have the following (minimum) content format:
NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_ID="22.04" VERSION="22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)" VERSION_CODENAME=jammy ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
This excerpt is from Ubuntu 22.04, but other distributions might have fewer, more or different fields and values.
It returns the value of "ID" or "undef", if the conditions are not those specified above.
COPYRIGHT and LICENCE¶
Copyright 2024 David Cantrell
This software is free-as-in-speech software, and may be used, distributed, and modified under the terms of either the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or the Artistic Licence. It's up to you which one you use. The full text of the licences can be found in the files GPL2.txt and ARTISTIC.txt, respectively.
2024-06-23 | perl v5.40.0 |