Remind me (pls)... Distro Version Discovery

[Miano, Steven M.]

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> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Adam McGreggor
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:05 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Remind me (pls)... Distro Version Discovery
>
> Heya,
>
> Stupid dumbass question here, which is bugging me, as it's really
> slipped my mind...
>
> I'm after the app which tells me which *distro* I'm using, and the
> version; it's not uname(1), and I've seen it posted before, here
> (greping 450MB of list-archive just ain't gonna happen).
>
> Anyone know what I'm thinking of? (And I don't want to switch to
> TTY[0-6]...
>
> TIA,
>
> A
>
>
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Try:

Cat /etc/issue

Worked for me came back with:

Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS \n \1

~Steve


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