Get the Version of Solaris Running

Getting the exact version of the Solaris operating system running on your system can be useful, especially if you are connected to a remote server.

uname -r

The uname command can be used to get system information. In this case we are going to use the -r command to get release information.

Example:

# uname -r
5.10

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This article was originally written on 12/1/06 Tagged with: Solaris

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Comments (1)

1. August 24, 2008 12:51 pm
   Matt

   Checking /etc/release will give you a bit more info as well … not great for scripting but has more verbose information if required.

   # cat /etc/release
   Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC
   Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
   Use is subject to license terms.
   Assembled 16 August 2007