On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:15:46PM +0200, Alfred Charles Stockton wrote: > Now what I would like to do is to only print the substring "Debian > GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" from the 1st line, preferably in bash.
The standard says /etc/os-release is shell-compatible, so I would do this: . /etc/os-release echo ${PRETTY_NAME}