Debian | Find Out Release Name
Question
I was trying to dynamically get version name inside docker for debian based image, but there is no lsb_release pre-installed
Answer
There is /etc/os-release/ file with all required info, also it is in form of shell env, so we can just source it and use desired variable.
$ . /etc/os-release
$ echo $VERSION_CODENAME
buster
What I Learned
- For ubuntu
. /etc/lsb-release
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