James wrote: > Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Why doesn't /etc/issue say 7.8 though? > > Not much of an answer, but in addition to /etc/issue there is > > also /etc/debian_version, which does give 7.8. > > Thanks. > There should be standard file for all distros. :-)
Oh but there is! The Linux Standard Base created a standard way to do this using the lsb_release command quite some years ago. # apt-get install lsb-release $ lsb_release --short --release 7.8 You can read about it here: http://www.linuxbase.org/ And of course here: http://xkcd.com/927/ Bob
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