09-08-2006
that worked! thank u both for your help. I'll let this run a few days and make sure it's stable.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ubuntu-distro-info
UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1)
NAME
ubuntu-distro-info - provides information about Ubuntu's distributions
SYNOPSIS
ubuntu-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
--date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
latest development version
--lts latest long term support (LTS) version
-s, --stable
latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported stable versions
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
-c, --codename
print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO
debian-distro-info(1), distro-info(1)
AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info January 2011 UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1)