On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:15:46 +0200 "Alfred Charles Stockton" <alf@devacs.za.net> 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. > > Please tell me how I should go about this? lsb_release -ds from lsb-release package.