lsb_release

displays Linux Standard Base and distribution-specific information

TLDR

Print all information

$ lsb_release --all

Print description

$ lsb_release --description

Print OS ID in short format

$ lsb_release -is

Print release and codename

$ lsb_release -rcs

SYNOPSIS

lsb_release [options]

DESCRIPTION

lsb_release displays Linux Standard Base (LSB) and distribution-specific information about the installed Linux distribution, including distributor ID, description, release number, and codename.

PARAMETERS

-a, --all

Print all available information

-d, --description

Print distribution description

-i, --id

Print distributor ID

-r, --release

Print release number

-c, --codename

Print codename

-s, --short

Short output format (omit field names)

-v, --version

Print LSB version

CAVEATS

Not available on all distributions. Some distributions provide this via /etc/os-release file instead.