On 04/25/2013 01:39 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > On 25 April 2013 13:30, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> 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... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.9 & 6.4, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OpenSuSE 12.3, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc