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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?

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  • Why don't you use pkg fetch? For example pkg fetch -Uy -o ~/ firefox will download the firefox package to your home directory.
    – uzsolt
    May 15 at 11:52
  • @uzsolt : This was on a freenas (aka truenas) system where freebsd ports repo by default is disabled (and I don't feel like enabling it). Not something one would normally do but this was a core-level non-jail package that was needed.
    – Vivek Gani
    2 days ago

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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
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considering the format of the version from freebsd-version is something like 12.2-RELEASE-p14 , with sed one could select and replace (s/) the area including and after the first period (\..*) and replace it with null (//) :

FREEBSD_MAJOR_VERSION=`freebsd-version | sed 's/\..*//'`

you can then use it in a script for, say, downloading a package...

wget http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:${FREEBSD_MAJOR_VERSION}:x86:64/[...rest of url...]
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