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distro-agnostic-get_os-release
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| filenames = ['/etc/os-release'] # add any other distro locations for os-release | |
| def read_release(): | |
| for filename in filenames: | |
| if os.path.isfile(filename): | |
| with open('/etc/os-release', 'r') as relfile: | |
| for line in relfile: | |
| if('NAME ' in line): | |
| release_dict(line.split(' ')[1]) | |
| def release_dict(file_loc,name): | |
| ddict = {} | |
| delim = get_delimiter() | |
| with open(filename,'r') as relfile: | |
| for line in relfile: | |
| ll = line.strip('\n').replace('\"', '').split(delim) | |
| if len(ll) > 1: | |
| ddict[ll[0].lower()] = ll[1] | |
| return ddict | |
| def get_delimiter(): | |
| if("Red Hat" in name): | |
| return "=" | |
| elif("Ubuntu" in name): | |
| return " " | |
| elif("Elementary" in name): | |
| return " " | |
| else | |
| return ":" |
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