How to check the RHEL version in Linux shell and store it in a variable

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How can I check the RHEL version in Linux shell? What I need is to store it in a shell variable called MY_OS. How can it be done?

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Run the following command to display RHEL or CentOS 8 version

cat /etc/redhat-release

Here is outputs from my CentOS 8 server:

CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

Another option to check the RHEL version

cat  /etc/os-release

Use the grep command:

grep VERSION_ID /etc/os-release
grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release
MY_OS="$(grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release)"
MY_OS_VERSION="$(grep VERSION_ID /etc/os-release)"
echo "$MY_OS"
echo "$MY_OS_VERSION"

See my page
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/what-version-of-redhat-linux-am-i-running/

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