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How can you tell the version of Ubuntu on a system in a .sh (bash) script?
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Var=$(lsb_release -r)
echo "$Var"
Should do the trick.
For the numeric portion only add this:
NumOnly=$(cut -f2 <<< "$Var")
echo "$NumOnly"
The lsb-release variables file
/usr/bin/lsb_release is a Python script. It’s a short script that serves as a good introduction to the python language. As others mentioned, a shorter way to get the version number only is with lsb_release -sr.
The /etc/lsb-release file defines environmental variables with the same information provided by the lsb_release -a command:
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS"
You can include these environment variables at anytime using . /etc/lsb-release. To test in your terminal:
$ . /etc/lsb-release
$ echo $DISTRIB_RELEASE
16.04
$ echo $DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS