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Find out version kernel

Hi this as most of the post I have on my blog are little but useful I think.

So now is a simple command to find out which version of kernel we are running on our system the command . The command is uname and print the system information

the option -a show all the information

here it is the output of the man page for uname so you can see what options are available

NAME
uname - print system information

SYNOPSIS
uname [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
Print certain system information.  With no OPTION, same as -s.

-a, --all
print all information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if unknown:

-s, --kernel-name
print the kernel name

-n, --nodename
print the network node hostname

-r, --kernel-release
print the kernel release

-v, --kernel-version
print the kernel version

-m, --machine
print the machine hardware name

-p, --processor
print the processor type or "unknown"

-i, --hardware-platform
print the hardware platform or "unknown"

-o, --operating-system
print the operating system

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit