Info about OS by command in Cygwin

[Christian Franke]

Thomas Wiedmann wrote:
> by which Cygwin/bash command can I get detailed information about the 
> Operating System, e. g. about the Windows version (XP? SP?)?
> Trying with the Windows command "ver" I've got the error "-bash: ver: 
> command not found".

'uname' and '/proc/version' show the Windows version number 
(NT-5.0=2000, 5.1=XP, 5.2=2003, 6.0=Vista) but not the SP version. The 
'ver' is a cmd.exe builtin command and can also be run from bash:

$ uname
CYGWIN_NT-5.1

$ cat /proc/version
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34

$ cmd /c ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]


Hope this helps,
Christian


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