Devel::...Srelease(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Devel::CheckOS::Helpers::LinuxOSrelease — functions to deal with /etc/os-release file. Okay bestie, this page is Devel::...Srelease(3) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and we are so ready 💅✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s the whole vibe, no cap:

use Devel::CheckOS::Helpers::LinuxOSrelease 'distributor_id';
my $id = distributor_id;

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This module exports functions to handle text files related to Debian-like distributions. Short, sweet, iconic 🎀

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👑 EXPORTED 👑

The following subs are exported, periodt:

🦋 distributor_id 🦋

Retrieves and returns the distributor ID from the /etc/os-release file.

It’s expected that the file exists, is readable, and has this (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. Every distro has its own main character energy, fr fr 🌈

It returns the value of ID, or undef, if the conditions are not those specified above.

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🎀 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.

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