Show current Linux distribution and version information Commands Add comments Jan 242009 Show current Linux distribution and version information Answer: Try the following command in shell. # head -n1 /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l Related posts: Check Debian version information Show the current user in MySQL How to check the bash shell version How to display swap information on Linux Display current login user information Leave a Reply Cancel reply Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>