Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@gmail.com> wrote:

With the new virtualbox update I had to obtain virtualbox version in a script (and of course, virtualbox binary doesn't have a sane --version parameter...).

Anyway, its pretty simple to pacman -Qi virtualbox | grep -e "^Version" | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's|-.||'

Perhaps it may be nice to have a pacman flag to obtain just the version string. I'll file a feature request, but before that anyone has an comments on why it would be useless or a bad idea?

you could just use: $ pacman -Q virtualbox | awk '{print $2}' 4.1.18-4