Problem

You want to check the Ubuntu version from a CUI terminal

Solution

You can find the version info here.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"

Tags: linux

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