Re: Extract substring from cat
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
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