On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7
Pet peeve. Don't use cat to create input streams when the shell is perfectly capable on it's own with <. > On a recent Debian installation, this prints: > > Linux version 2.6.18-3-686 2.6.18-7) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc > > This output doesn't allow one to tell if this kernel is compiled with > gcc-3.0 or later. > > The full /proc/version content, just for the record: > > Linux version 2.6.18-3-686 (Debian 2.6.18-7) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version > 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)) #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 16:41:14 UTC > 2006 This would seem to work (maybe the .* is too greedy). sed -n 's/.*gcc version \([^() ]*\)[() ].*/\1/p;q' < /proc/version -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
