How would I find the cygwin version which has been installed on my machine

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user339108 picture user339108 · Dec 22, 2010 · Viewed 42.4k times · Source

Cygwin - How would I find the Cygwin's version which has been installed on my machine? (Win Vista)

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ak2 picture ak2 · Dec 22, 2010

With the uname utility, as on other POSIX systems.

uname -r

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