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

[Martin Cigorraga]

On 26 July 2012 06:37, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:

> 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:
> >
>
Or the same with cut:
>
> $ pacman -Q virtualbox | cut -d' ' -f2
> 4.1.18-4
>
> Getting the complete package information is not required.
> -
>

I was just to suggest this!
Anyway, this diversity and broad way to achieve the same goal is what makes
Unix-like OSes so pretty: all roads leads to Rome  ^_^



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