chesty was once rumoured to have said:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:31:15PM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
>> what's the command to find out what version of linux you are
>> running. i've got some old redhat boxes fired up and want to see
>> what they've got.
>
> cat /etc/issue might be a more portable way of finding out, it
> should work on a lot of unix flavours.
Only if your /etc/issue hasn't been "customized".
I personally suggest you do not rely on /etc/issue. -- Its
metaphorical equivilent to using the motd to work out what colour
shirt the sysadmin is wearing today.
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