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Comment from: Ralph

Comment from: Anonymous

Thanks. This was what I was looking for.
Comment from: Web Design Montreal

Thank you I did # cat /proc/version and worked perfectly on Red hat
Comment from: Anand

use
#cat /etc/issue or
#cat /etc/issue.net
Comment from: sena

I was struggling to know which linux flavour my server runs. The cmd was really helpful :) Thanks.
Comment from: Sandeep

Thanks a lot for sharing this :)
Comment from: ben

Awesome, thanks :)
Comment from: cloudminister

Thank you for sharing this informative blog. it’s very helpful for us.
#cat /etc/lsb-release ##Gives distro’s ID, Release, Codename, and Discription