On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:55:26PM +0100, André Kelpe wrote: > cut -d ' ' -f4 /etc/fedora-release Needless use of an external binary! With bash: VER=($(< /etc/fedora-release)) You can now just use array element VER[3]: echo ${VER[3]} or VER=${VER[3]} -- Rudi