Extract substring from cat

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Subject: Extract substring from cat
From: "Alfred Charles Stockton" <alf@devacs.za.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:15:46 +0200
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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?

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Regards,
Alf Stockton

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