7 thoughts on “Command to Find Current Ubuntu Version”

1. Remya Raman - October 5, 2009 at 10:29 am

   You can also find it by using:

   cat /etc/issue

   Try this out and see what you get!

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2. Binny V A - October 5, 2009 at 1:53 pm

   Hey – that comment works on Non Ubuntu distros(worked in Fedora) – thanks for the feedback.

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3. Remya Raman - October 5, 2009 at 2:32 pm

   anytime Binny:)

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4. d2globalinc - November 18, 2009 at 2:48 am

   # GET AND SET UBUNTU VERSION INFORMATION
   D2_OSDIST=”(lsb_release -is)”
   D2_OSVER=”(lsb_release -rs)”
   D2_OSNICK=”$(lsb_release -cs)”

   Here I have set the distribution, version and nickname to variables – using bash.

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5. smarcell - May 7, 2011 at 1:16 am

   Other method:

   $ cat /etc/[A-Za-z]*[_-][rv]e[lr]*

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6. anand - November 17, 2011 at 1:03 pm

   Thanks Binny 🙂

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7. mrAibo - September 18, 2017 at 3:44 pm

   Universal:

   % lsb_release -a

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