Rely on regex to find the version number, rather than rely on numerical input 
to be found in a particular input field.
Proposed implementation also eliminates the necessity to invoke 'grep' + 'awk'.

Tested on:
Oracle Linux

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/ver_linux | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index d5b342e..af5ac82 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -94,8 +94,12 @@ awk '/version/{
        substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH))
 }'
 
-pppd --version 2>&1| grep version | awk \
-'NR==1{print "PPP                   ", $3}'
+pppd --version 2>&1 |
+awk '/version/{
+       match($0, /[0-9]+([.]?[0-9]+)+/)
+       printf("PPP\t\t\t%s\n",
+       substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH))
+}'
 
 isdnctrl 2>&1 | grep version | awk \
 'NR==1{print "isdn4k-utils          ", $NF}'
-- 
2.4.9

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