github.com/thediveo/osrelease

A Pedantic os-release Parser

osrelease is a Go module implementing a slightly pedantic parser for the os-release file format, as specified in os-release(5). This implementation actually parses quoted assignment values for escape sequences in correct sequence, instead of simply doing blind search-and-replaces (which can result in unexpected results).

Oh, and this module has tests.

There's a reason why we call it the "pedantic" parser after all.

Usage

Simply get the OS identification variables using osrelease.New(). That's all.

package main

import "github.com/thediveo/osrelease"

func main() {
    vars := osrelease.New()
    for name, value := range vars {
        println(name, "=", value)
    }
}

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Copyright and License

osrelease is Copyright 2021-23 Harald Albrecht, and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.