trey said on 05/Apr/2008

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:47:51 UTC

Another good one ( for Ubuntu anyway):

cat /etc/lsb-release

cczona said on 05/Apr/2008

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:19:12 UTC

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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trey said on 05/Apr/2008

cczona said on 05/Apr/2008