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Few useful commands to find the Amazon Linux version on your EC2. Sometimes you need to know the version when installing 3rd party libraries.
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find_amazon_linux_version.sh
cat /etc/system-release
# Amazon Linux release 2 (Karoo)
uname -a
# Linux ip-10-0-0-102.ec2.internal 4.14.101-91.76.amzn2.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 19 17:51:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/os-release
# NAME="Amazon Linux"
# VERSION="2"
# ID="amzn"
# ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
# VERSION_ID="2"
# PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2"
# ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
# CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2"
# HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"
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