osinfo-detect (1)

Leading comments

Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.09 (Pod::Simple 3.35)

Standard preamble:
========================================================================

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/osinfo-detect.1".)

NAME

osinfo-detect - Detect the operating system on installable media or trees

SYNOPSIS

osinfo-detect [] PATH|URI

DESCRIPTION

Examine the "PATH" or "URI" to determine what (if any) operating system it is for, and whether it is installable or is a Live image. By default "PATH" or "URI" will be interpreted as pointing to media. To request examination of an install tree instead, the option "--type=tree" should be given.

The output information is formatted for humans; to obtain machine readable output, the option "--format=env" should be given to produce shell-like key/value pairs.

OPTIONS

--format=plain|env

Switch between human readable output (plain, the default) or machine readable output (env).

--type=media|tree

Switch between looking for

CD/DVD ISO

media (media, the default) or install trees (tree)

EXIT STATUS

The exit status will be 0 if an operating system was detected, or 1 if none was found.

AUTHORS

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org>, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Red Hat, Inc.

LICENSE

"osinfo-detect" is distributed under the termsof the v2 license. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is warranty; not even for or