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