find_os_information
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Find OS Information
Apr 2023
There are many ways to extract this information from Linux, here are just a few examples:
This one is my favorite, although if you are having issues, this doesn't give you some vital information like kernel version:
From the command line, use:
cat /etc/os-release
You will get an output similar to below:
NAME="AlmaLinux" VERSION="8.5 (Arctic Sphynx)" ID="almalinux" ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora" VERSION_ID="8.5" PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8" PRETTY_NAME="AlmaLinux 8.5 (Arctic Sphynx)" ANSI_COLOR="0;34" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:almalinux:almalinux:8::baseos" HOME_URL="https://almalinux.org/" DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.almalinux.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.almalinux.org/" ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT="AlmaLinux-8" ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8.5"
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