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How To: Find Out the Release Version of Your UNIX

August 16th, 2007 | Basic stuff, Linux, Solaris

Different UNIX-like operating systems store information about their release versions differently. If you know what OS you have, but not sure about the version, then here's how you can find out:

RedHat Linux

bash-3.1$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5 (Tikanga)

Ubuntu Linux

bash-3.1$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 6.10 n l

SUSE Linux

~> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (x86_64)
VERSION = 10

Sun Solaris

bash-2.03$ cat /etc/release
            Solaris 8 2/04 s28s_hw4wos_05a SPARC
Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                 Assembled 08 January 2004
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9 comments ↓

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#9 ilya on 06.14.09 at 2:00 pm

for linux you can also try to run lsb_release -a

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