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After running the cat /etc/*-release command, press Enter and you will get the output according to your Linux distribution. In my case, the output is as follows:

DISTRIB_ID=UbuntuDISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenialDISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"NAME="Ubuntu"VERSION="16.04.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"ID=ubuntuID_LIKE=DebianPRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"VERSION_ID="16.04"HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"VERSION_CODENAME=xenialUBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

There is an alternate way to get system information. You can get the system information by running a version file from the /proc directory. After running the command, press Enter, and ...

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