Re: Extract substring from cat

[Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu>]

2015-10-16 14:15 keltezéssel, Alfred Charles Stockton írta:
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Alf Stockton
> 
> 
> 
cat /etc/*-release | grep ^PRETTY_NAME | sed 's/^.*=//'

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