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

[Karol Blazewicz]

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

Use expac:
$ expac %v -S virtualbox
4.1.18-3

(I don't have it installed, so I had to use '-S').