proc_version(5)

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version 6.20 · 10 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, this is proc_version(5) — the manual page for /proc/version. And what does it do? Kernel version. That's the whole vibe. 💅

  • /proc/version — kernel version

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

💾 /proc/version 💾

/proc/version is literally the string that identifies the kernel version that is currently running. The way it's built? It includes the contents of:

  • /proc/sys/kernel/ostype
  • /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease
  • /proc/sys/kernel/version

For example:

Linux version 1.0.9 (quinlan@phaze) #1 Sat May 14 01:51:54 EDT 1994

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • proc(5) — the related manual page, go give it a read when you're done here.

Linux man-pages 6.20 — dated 2026-02-08 — that's the source/version/date, and that's a wrap, bestie 🫶✨

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
  • nixpkgs unstable: man-pages 6.20
  • 📜 the page's license: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Copyright 1994-1995, Daniel Quinlan <Daniel.Quinlan@linux.org>
  • Copyright 2002-2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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