Find your CentOS release

Posted on 4 July 2017 by kosmas

Problem

You would like to know the release of your CentOS server but the cat /etc/issue does not work.

Solution

Try with the following:

cat /etc/centos-release

1	cat /etc/centos-release

or with:

cat /etc/redhat-release

1	cat /etc/redhat-release

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