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

[Christian Hesse]

Morris <lorimz at gmail.com> on Thu, 2012/07/26 11:24:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at 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

Or the same with cut:

$ pacman -Q virtualbox | cut -d' ' -f2
4.1.18-4

Getting the complete package information is not required.
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