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cczona on 04/03/08

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URL: http://man-wiki.net/index.php/1:lsb_release

(EDITED: Originally I had this snip using 'cat /proc/version'. But have since replaced it with a more reliable -- and specific -- method)

If you need still more info (or are on a BSD), see 'uname', 'dpkg-architecture'

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# version
lsb-release -v
 
# distro
lsb-release -i
 
# nick
lsb-release -c
 
# those and more
lsb-release -a

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Posted By: trey on April 5, 2008

Another good one ( for Ubuntu anyway):

cat /etc/lsb-release

Posted By: cczona on April 5, 2008

Thanks, trey. That led me to the revised version, above. Using the executable is considered more reliable than reading a file like /proc/version or /etc/lsb-release, because the former catches values that have been overridden.

And because lsb-release is a Linux core tool, it should be available on most distros (i.e. not just Ubuntu).

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