The current implementation uses both 'grep' and 'awk' for text processing
here, which may be alright as a quick solution to be run on the command
line. While in a script, 'sed' or 'awk' would be a better choice. On
top of that, the current implementation expects the version number to be
found in field 3 as seen by 'awk'. Should the output format be different,
this approach would no longer be reliable.

The proposed implementation uses 'sed' as a more flexible tool to handle
varying output formats.


Tested on:
Arch Linux

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com>
---

--- linux/scripts/ver_linux.orig    2015-08-30 21:34:09.000000000 +0300
+++ linux/scripts/ver_linux    2015-09-30 22:50:41.528887446 +0300
@@ -50,8 +50,12 @@
 quota -V 2>&1 | grep version | awk \
 'NR==1{print "quota-tools           ", $NF}'

-pppd --version 2>&1| grep version | awk \
-'NR==1{print "PPP                   ", $3}'
+pppd --version 2>&1 |
+sed '
+    /version/!d
+    s/[^0-9\.]//g
+    s/^/PPP\t\t\t/
+'

 isdnctrl 2>&1 | grep version | awk \
 'NR==1{print "isdn4k-utils          ", $NF}'
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