How do i find out which Fedora version I’m running from the cli (not uname -a)

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I want to know if the box is Fedora Core 4 or Redhat 9, or CentOS, etc… not if it has Kernel 2.6.x

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On modern systems you should be able to look in /etc/lsb-release

mojo-jojo david% cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"

This should be the LSB mandated way of finding out the distribution across different Linux distributions.

You should not rely on /etc/issue, as it is used for the login message, and someone might change it.

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