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From: srvarma@sodium.att.com (16AW20000[ehs]-Sandeep Varma(HO0000)T100)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to find VERSION of UNIX OS
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.221649.1772@sodium.att.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 22:16:49 GMT
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In article <2336@prodigal.dwrsun2.UUCP> perl@dwrsun2.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes:
>
>In pre-4.1.1 versions of SunOS it's in /usr/5bin, so you have to
>install the System V utilities to get it.
>
How about the following options, without having to install Sys5 stuff:

1. Reading from /etc/motd. Normally, system administrators put the version info
in that file.

2. Via "/etc/dmesg" command. Generally, this also gives you info about version
number and a lot of other interesting stuff.

3. If 1 and 2 fail, you should be able to do a cat on "etc/install/release" to
get version number of SunOS. 

Hope this helps.

- Sandeep.

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