How do I find my current runlevel?

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The output of the runlevel command will indicate your previous and current runlevel separated by a single space. If there was no previous runlevel 'N' will be used as a placeholder.

For example:

# runlevel
N 5

The output above indicates that the current runlevel is 5 and there was no previous runlevel.

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