How can I extract the FreeBSD major version from freebsd-version (or uname)?

soup_sam

Somtimes you need to manually download a freebsd package (organized by major version) and want to write a script to get it, is there a way to extract the Freebsd major version using freebsd-version and sed ?

Originally asked by Vivek Gani on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Optionally, cut the string shell> uname -r 13.0-RELEASE shell> export FREEBSD_MAJOR_VERSION=`uname -r | cut -d . -f 1` shell> echo $FREEBSD_MAJOR_VERSION 13

Full answer by Vladimir Botka: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/702597 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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