On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:15:46PM +0200, Alfred Charles Stockton wrote: > > If I issue the command cat /etc/*-release on my Debian system I get:- > > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > VERSION_ID="8" > VERSION="8 (jessie)" > ID=debian > HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/" > SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/" > BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" > > 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. > > Please tell me how I should go about this?
$ gawk -F= '/^PRETTY/{ print $2 }' /etc/*-release