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Simple example of how to get the VERSION_ID from /etc/os-release in a shell script
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get_version_id_from_os_release.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
version_id=$(grep "^ID=" /etc/os-release | cut -d'=' -f2 | tr -d '"')
echo $version_id
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