On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 6:19:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Elvidge wrote:

On 05/06/2023 13:23, Neeraj Kumar wrote:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

grep -o -E "7|8" /etc/redhat-release

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Thank you for the reply..
if the Linux is 8.7 then it will not give proper output.

can we have this by awk command .. I tried multiple but unlucky to get in single line

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I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

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On 05/06/2023 13:23, Neeraj Kumar wrote:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

grep -o -E "7|8" /etc/redhat-release

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Chris Elvidge <[email protected]> writes:

On 05/06/2023 13:23, Neeraj Kumar wrote:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8 >>

grep -o -E "7|8" /etc/redhat-release

This will say 7 for release 6.7 (not that I know there ever was such a
release number) but even given the OPs restriction to 7 or 8, version
7.8 will give two lines.

One way (if one's grep has them) would be to use Perl REs and employ a "lookbehind" assertion:

grep -o -P '(?<=release )\d+' /etc/redhat-release

but then it's not at all clear what OP really wants.

To the OP: it's generally better to look in /etc/os-release.

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On 05.06.2023 15:14, Neeraj Kumar wrote:

On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 6:19:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Elvidge wrote:

On 05/06/2023 13:23, Neeraj Kumar wrote:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8 >>>

grep -o -E "7|8" /etc/redhat-release

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Thank you for the reply..
if the Linux is 8.7 then it will not give proper output.

You could use sed for the extraction of the number

echo " 8.7 "| sed 's/.*\([78]\)[.].*/\1/'

or shell's expr

expr " 8.7 " : '.*\([78]\)[.].*'

(In both cases taking the digit 7 or 8 in front of a literal dot.)

can we have this by awk command .. I tried multiple but unlucky to get in single line

Why awk?

With Ben's suggestion for the source of the version information

awk -F[=\".] '/VERSION=/{print $3}' /etc/os-release

(can of course also done with sed or shell in a most simple way).

Janis

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On 05.06.2023 15:55, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

or shell's expr

Erm.. - it's not a shell built-in but an ordinary command.

Janis

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On 2023-06-05, Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 6:19:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Elvidge wrote:

On 05/06/2023 13:23, Neeraj Kumar wrote:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

grep -o -E "7|8" /etc/redhat-release

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Thank you for the reply..
if the Linux is 8.7 then it will not give proper output.

If Linux is 8.7, today can't be 2023. The current stable version is
6.3.6, with a 6.4-rc5 (release candidate 5) on the mainline.

See https://kernel.org


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On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:23:27 -0400, Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

Why use /etc/redhat-release? /etc/lsb-release is more likely to be found in various distributions, and is easier to parse in bash.

$ . /etc/lsb-release
$ echo $DISTRIB_RELEASE
8
$ echo $DISTRIB_ID
Mageia

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Kaz Kylheku <[email protected]> writes:

On 2023-06-05, Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

if the Linux is 8.7 then it will not give proper output.

If Linux is 8.7, today can't be 2023. The current stable version is
6.3.6, with a 6.4-rc5 (release candidate 5) on the mainline.

See https://kernel.org

Kaz's point is that Linux (the kernel) and Red Hat (the operating
system) are two different things with different version numbers. /etc/redhat-release has information about the OS.

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On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:28:27 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:23:27 -0400, Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

Why use /etc/redhat-release? /etc/lsb-release is more likely to be found in various distributions, and is easier to parse in bash.

$ . /etc/lsb-release
$ echo $DISTRIB_RELEASE
8
$ echo $DISTRIB_ID
Mageia

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Or the op could do something like
$ . /etc/os-release
$ echo $VERSION
or
$ echo $VERSION_ID

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Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> writes:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

Please show us the content of /etc/redhat-release.

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On 2023-06-05, Keith Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <[email protected]> writes:

On 2023-06-05, Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

if the Linux is 8.7 then it will not give proper output.

If Linux is 8.7, today can't be 2023. The current stable version is
6.3.6, with a 6.4-rc5 (release candidate 5) on the mainline.

See https://kernel.org

Kaz's point is that Linux (the kernel) and Red Hat (the operating
system) are two different things with different version numbers. /etc/redhat-release has information about the OS.

Unlike some, I don't have a problem with Red Hat being called a
"Linux distribution", but when you start talking about it it being
Linux 8.7, we have crossed the blurry line between political
and stupid.

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Kaz Kylheku <[email protected]> writes:

On 2023-06-05, Keith Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <[email protected]> writes:

On 2023-06-05, Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

if the Linux is 8.7 then it will not give proper output.

If Linux is 8.7, today can't be 2023. The current stable version is
6.3.6, with a 6.4-rc5 (release candidate 5) on the mainline.

See https://kernel.org

Kaz's point is that Linux (the kernel) and Red Hat (the operating
system) are two different things with different version numbers.
/etc/redhat-release has information about the OS.

Unlike some, I don't have a problem with Red Hat being called a
"Linux distribution", but when you start talking about it it being
Linux 8.7, we have crossed the blurry line between political
and stupid.

My point was not about the politics of referring to a distribution as
"Linux". My point was that the person you were addressing might not
have understood what you were talking about.

Neeraj wrote something incorrect. That doesn't imply they're stupid.

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On 05/06/2023 18:30, Keith Thompson wrote:

Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> writes:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

Please show us the content of /etc/redhat-release.

This is what I have. They dropped 'Server' for version 8 ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa)

Also, CentOs ...

CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
CentOS Stream release 8

/etc/os-release doesn't seem to exist prior to version 7, and CentOs
Stream dropped the decimal-point - but VERSION_ID is the easiest to parse.

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Richard Harnden <[email protected]> writes:

On 05/06/2023 18:30, Keith Thompson wrote:

Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> writes:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8 >> Please show us the content of /etc/redhat-release.

This is what I have. They dropped 'Server' for version 8 ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)

[SNIP]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa)

Also, CentOs ...

CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
CentOS Stream release 8

/etc/os-release doesn't seem to exist prior to version 7, and CentOs
Stream dropped the decimal-point - but VERSION_ID is the easiest to
parse.

Is /etc/redhat-release always just one line? (Similar files like /etc/lsb-release are several lines.)

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On 06/06/2023 19:35, Keith Thompson wrote:

Richard Harnden <[email protected]> writes:

On 05/06/2023 18:30, Keith Thompson wrote:

Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> writes:

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

Please show us the content of /etc/redhat-release.

This is what I have. They dropped 'Server' for version 8 ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)

[SNIP]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa)

Also, CentOs ...

CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
CentOS Stream release 8

/etc/os-release doesn't seem to exist prior to version 7, and CentOs
Stream dropped the decimal-point - but VERSION_ID is the easiest to
parse.

Is /etc/redhat-release always just one line? (Similar files like /etc/lsb-release are several lines.)

Yes, it's always one line.

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On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 11:50:53 +0100, Richard Harnden <[email protected]> wrote:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa)

If I parse this list through:
sed 's/.*release \([^(]*\)(.*/\1/'

I get:
5.6
5.8
5.11
6.4
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
7.4
7.6
7.7
7.9
8.1
8.3
8.4
8.6

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On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 07:25:47 -0000 (UTC), Pyt T. <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 11:50:53 +0100, Richard Harnden <[email protected]> wrote:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 (Ootpa)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa)

If I parse this list through:
sed 's/.*release \([^(]*\)(.*/\1/'

I get:
5.6
5.8
5.11
6.4
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
7.4
7.6
7.7
7.9
8.1
8.3
8.4
8.6

Use:
sed 's/.*\([0-9]\)\..*/\1/'

to get:
5
5
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
8
8
8
8

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Le Mon, 5 Jun 2023 05:23:27 -0700 (PDT), Neeraj Kumar <[email protected]> a �crit :

I have two version; please help me to get the version in the form of 7 or 8

osver=$(tr -cd 0-9 < /etc/redhat-release)
minor=%${osver#?}
major=${osver%${osver#?}}

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