How to find which linux distribution you are running from a shell script
sed -n -e ‘s/ *(.*)//g’ -e ‘s/ /-/g’ -e ‘1p’ /etc/issue
Examples:
nethead2:$ sed -n -e 's/ *(.*)//g' -e 's/ /-/g' -e '1p' /etc/issue
Scientific-Linux-release-6.0
dhollowa-106$ sed -n -e 's/ *(.*)//g' -e 's/ /-/g' -e '1p' /etc/issue
CentOS-release-5.6
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