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universal-os-detector
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mdeacey / universal-os-detector

universal-os-detector

A Bash script for universal OS detection

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
17GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A Bash script for universal OS detection

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2024-09-19 04:51:55 UTC to 2024-09-19 08:30:35 UTC.

012024-09-19 04:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 19, 04:002024-09-19 05:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-19 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 19, 06:002024-09-19 07:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-19 08:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 19, 08:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 19, 04:002024-09-19 04:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 05:00:00 UTC110
Sep 19, 05:002024-09-19 05:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 06:00:00 UTC000
Sep 19, 06:002024-09-19 06:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 07:00:00 UTC000
Sep 19, 07:002024-09-19 07:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 08:00:00 UTC000
Sep 19, 08:002024-09-19 08:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 09:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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https://github.com/mdeacey/universal-os-detector?tab=readme-...: “You can easily incorporate the Universal OS Detector into your own scripts with the following one-liner: source <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdeacey/universal-os-detector/main/universal-os-…) && run_detection ” Even ignoring the security implications, fetching 11 kilobytes of script over the Internet every time you want to run this should feel like a bad idea to everybody. Also, if I were to want to run this from my script, I likely would want to act upon its output, and would therefore prefer having functions that output the bare result instead of one function whose output I would have to take apart.
In Universal-OS-detector: A Bash script for universal OS detection

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