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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Extract substring from cat |
| Date | 2015-10-16 15:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <qkdyp-7XP-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qkcCm-6zl-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <qkcCm-6zl-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <qkcM2-6LS-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:54:25PM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 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/^.*=//' Many insightful answers have been given. Yours is an example of "useless use of cat" [1], better spelt as grep ^PRETTY_NAME /etc/*-release | sed 's/^.*=//' Even better, since sed can do grep: sed -ne '/^PRETTY_NAME=/ s/^.*=// p' < /etc/*-release [1] <http://uselessuseofcat.com/> regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlYg+DYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYxKACdHFb8xn/cjQU5of0vsRmxnUXZ INAAnA3MxfnslHQPQ0Cw9TIOwWxcpI7F =xsvX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Extract substring from cat "Alfred Charles Stockton" <alf@devacs.za.net> - 2015-10-16 14:50 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2015-10-16 15:00 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-16 15:50 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat Kurt Flex <flxkrt@aol.com> - 2015-10-18 22:00 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-10-18 22:10 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-10-16 15:10 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> - 2015-10-16 15:30 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat "John L. Cunningham" <djohngo@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 15:30 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat Jonathan <winelauncher.jonathan@googlemail.com> - 2015-10-17 01:40 +0200
Re: Extract substring from cat Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 03:40 +0200
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