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Parsing out kernel release from /bin/uname command

polaris42002 Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:31 am

Joined: 08 Sep 2005

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Parsing out kernel release from /bin/uname command

Hello,

I`m looking for a tried and true module for parsing the output of the
uname command but have not been able to find one. My goal is to parse
out the full kernel release from the command.

If I run `uname` with the -r(release) option, I get:

$ uname --kernel-release
2.6.5-1.358smp

But that is not the entire release info--the rest is appended to the
version:

$ uname --kernel-version
#1 SMP Sat May 8 09:25:36 EDT 2004

So the full release string should be `2.6.5-1.358smp #1 SMP`.

I think I can put together a hack using `Date::Parse::str2time()` to
recognize the date info in version, take that out and then concat the
release info to what`s left, but I`d rather not if it`s been done
before. It`s hard to believe that there isn`t a module out there for
this...so please let me know if there is or if you see a more elegant
solution to this problem.

Thanks all

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