Sometimes you need to know what the codename or release number is for your Ubuntu computer. Heres how to simply get them from the terminal.

# to get all release information
lsb_release -a
# No LSB modules are available.
# Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
# Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
# Release:	14.04
# Codename:	trusty

# to get only the release number
lsb_release --release | cut -f2
# 14.04

# to get only the codename
lsb_release --codename | cut -f2
# trusty

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