On 04/25/2013 01:39 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
> On 25 April 2013 13:30, Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote:
>>>> I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can
>>>> 1) Check the version of my cent os
>>>
>>> lsb_release -a
>>
>> >From the question, he wants to know the version of CentOS, not the LSB
>> info.
>>
>> rpm -q centos-release
>
>
> lsb_release gives the version of CentOS.
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> LSB Version:
> :core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
> Distributor ID: CentOS
> Description: CentOS release 5.8 (Final)
> Release: 5.8
> Codename: Final
How odd. On my 64-bit CentOS 6.3, 'lsb_release -a' returns:
'bash: lsb_release: command not found'
Works on Debian 6.0.5 & Ubuntu 12.04.2 & 12.10.
The CentOS distro is a cloud server image if that makes any difference
although I wouldn't have thought so.
Cheers,
Phil...
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