Techie Corner

If u are on an unknown server and keen to know it’s linux distribution info, you can check the linux distribution info by just a single command (eg. version, codename, etc). Just tested this command in UBuntu and CentOS, both return as what i expected. 🙂

To check linux distribution and version, follow the steps below:-

• Start your terminal and enter the command below to show your the linux distribution info:-
  
  $ cat /etc/*-release

  1	$ cat /etc/*-release

• Here’s my result in one of my my Ubuntu box:-
  
  $ cat /etc/*-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"

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  $ cat /etc/*-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"

  
  Cool right!

* This command is only for linux machine, Mac OS X machine will show error.

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