How can I find the version of the Fedora I use

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sudo find  etc   xargs grep -i fedora  gt  searchFedora   gives    etc netplug d netplug    At least on Fedora Core 1       But see the Fedora version in the  etc netplug d netplug file  Is it serious

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cat  etc  release   It s universal for almost any major distribution

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These commands worked for Artik 10     cat  etc fedora-release cat  etc issue hostnamectl   and these others didn t     lsb release -a uname -a

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On my installation of Fedora 25  workstation  all of the distribution ID info was found in this file    usr lib os release d os-release-workstation    This included     NAME Fedora VERSION  25  Workstation Edition   ID fedora VERSION ID 25 PRETTY NAME  Fedora 25  Workstation Edition    lt      VARIANT  Workstation Edition  VARIANT ID workstation

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uname -a works with my fc11

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cat  etc issue   Or  cat  etc fedora-release as suggested by  Bruce ONeel

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The proposed standard file is  etc os-release  See http   www freedesktop org software systemd man os-release html  You can execute something like     source  etc os-release   echo  ID fedora   echo  VERSION ID 17   echo  VERSION 17  Beefy Miracle

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You could try   lsb release -a   which works on at least Debian and Ubuntu  and since it s LSB  it should surely be on most of the other mainstream distros at least   http   rpmfind net linux RPM sourceforge l ls lsb lsb release-1 0-1 i386 html suggests it s been around quite a while

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What about uname -a

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The simplest command which can give you what you need but some other good info too is   hostnamectl

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Belmiro HP-550     uname -a  Linux HP-550 2 6 30 10-105 2 23 fc11 x86 64  1 SMP Thu Feb 11 07 06 34 UTC 2010 x86 64 x86 64 x86 64 GNU Linux    Belmiro HP-550     lsb release -a  LSB Version   core-3 1-amd64 core-3 1-noarch core-3 2-amd64 core-3 2-noarch deskt op-3 1-amd64 desktop-3 1-noarch desktop-3 2-amd64 desktop-3 2-noarch Distributor ID  Fedora Description  Fedora release 11  Leonidas  Release  11 Codename  Leonidas  Belmiro HP-550

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You can also try  etc redhat-release or  etc fedora-release   cat  etc fedora-release  Fedora release 7  Moonshine

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