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 2 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 openSuSE 13.2 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 22:47:53.451206718 +0300 @@ -42,7 +42,11 @@ xfs_db -V 2>&1 | grep version | awk \ 'NR==1{print "xfsprogs ", $3}' -pccardctl -V 2>&1| grep pcmciautils | awk '{print "pcmciautils ", $2}' +pccardctl -V 2>&1 | +sed ' + /^\(pcmciautils\)[ \t]/!d + s//\1\t\t/ +' cardmgr -V 2>&1| grep version | awk \ 'NR==1{print "pcmcia-cs ", $3}' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/