{"id":176,"date":"2025-06-30T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horrillo.eu\/?p=176"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:49:32","slug":"version-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horrillo.eu\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Versi\u00f3n Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Una de las tareas m\u00e1s comunes para administradores de sistemas, desarrolladores o simplemente usuarios curiosos, es conocer qu\u00e9 distribuci\u00f3n y versi\u00f3n de Linux est\u00e1 instalada en un sistema. Una forma r\u00e1pida y muy utilizada para obtener esta informaci\u00f3n es usando el siguiente comando en la terminal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>cat \/etc\/*release<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u00bfQu\u00e9 hace este comando?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>El comando&nbsp;cat&nbsp;se utiliza en Linux para mostrar el contenido de archivos. En este caso, se est\u00e1 apuntando a todos los archivos en el directorio&nbsp;\/etc\/&nbsp;cuyo nombre termina en&nbsp;release. El asterisco (*) es un comod\u00edn que indica \u201ccualquier cosa\u201d, por lo tanto,&nbsp;*release&nbsp;puede coincidir con archivos como:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\/etc\/os-release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\/etc\/lsb-release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\/etc\/redhat-release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\/etc\/debian_version&nbsp;(aunque este no se llama \u201crelease\u201d, a veces se incluye por compatibilidad)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>El sistema mostrar\u00e1 el contenido de todos esos archivos, si existen, lo que suele incluir informaci\u00f3n como:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>El nombre de la distribuci\u00f3n (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La versi\u00f3n del sistema operativo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>El nombre en clave de la versi\u00f3n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Informaci\u00f3n adicional \u00fatil para scripts y automatizaci\u00f3n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ejemplo de salida en Ubuntu:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>$ cat \/etc\/*release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu<br>DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04<br>DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy<br>DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=\u00bbUbuntu 22.04.4 LTS\u00bb<br>NAME=\u00bbUbuntu\u00bb<br>VERSION=\u00bb22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)\u00bb<br>ID=ubuntu<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Ejemplo en CentOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>$ cat \/etc\/*release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)<br>NAME=\u00bbCentOS Linux\u00bb<br>VERSION=\u00bb7 (Core)\u00bb<br>ID=\u00bbcentos\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 se usa\u00a0*release \u00a0y no un archivo concreto?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>La raz\u00f3n principal es la&nbsp;<strong>portabilidad<\/strong>. Diferentes distribuciones de Linux almacenan la informaci\u00f3n del sistema en diferentes archivos. Por ejemplo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Debian\/Ubuntu<\/strong>:&nbsp;\/etc\/lsb-release,&nbsp;\/etc\/os-release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Red Hat\/CentOS<\/strong>:&nbsp;\/etc\/redhat-release,&nbsp;\/etc\/centos-release,&nbsp;\/etc\/os-release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SUSE<\/strong>:&nbsp;\/etc\/SuSE-release&nbsp;(aunque ya es obsoleto)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alpine Linux<\/strong>: usa&nbsp;\/etc\/alpine-release<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Al usar&nbsp;cat \/etc\/*release, nos aseguramos de capturar todos los archivos relevantes sin necesidad de saber de antemano cu\u00e1l usa la distribuci\u00f3n en cuesti\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Alternativas<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Si prefieres un m\u00e9todo m\u00e1s limpio o estandarizado, tambi\u00e9n puedes usar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>cat \/etc\/os-release<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>o<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>hostnamectl<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Este \u00faltimo comando, disponible en sistemas con&nbsp;systemd, tambi\u00e9n proporciona la versi\u00f3n del sistema operativo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusi\u00f3n<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>El comando&nbsp;cat \/etc\/*release&nbsp;es una forma r\u00e1pida, sencilla y muy vers\u00e1til de conocer la versi\u00f3n del sistema operativo Linux que estamos utilizando. Funciona en la mayor\u00eda de distribuciones modernas y es especialmente \u00fatil cuando se accede a sistemas por SSH o se trabaja en entornos donde no se tiene instalada una herramienta de informaci\u00f3n del sistema m\u00e1s avanzada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El comando cat \/etc\/*release permite ver de forma r\u00e1pida la distribuci\u00f3n y versi\u00f3n de Linux instalada. Funciona en la mayor\u00eda de sistemas, ya que lee todos los archivos relacionados con la informaci\u00f3n del sistema en \/etc\/. Es \u00fatil para administradores y scripts por su compatibilidad y simplicidad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Versi\u00f3n Linux - Mi blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aprende a ver la versi\u00f3n de Linux instalada usando el comando cat \/etc\/*release, una forma r\u00e1pida y compatible con la mayor\u00eda de distribuciones.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/horrillo.eu\/?p=176\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Versi\u00f3n Linux - 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