Using 'awk' here is a bit of an overkill. Should the output of 'gcc -dumpversion' vary on another disto, or change overtime, it may no longer be available at field 1, as relied on by the current implementation. I believe 'sed' offers greater flexibility here in terms of processing varying output as well as being more light-weight.
Tested on: Gentoo Linux Debian 6.0.10 Oracle Linux Server release 7.1 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 22:30:23.564140555 +0300 @@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ uname -a echo ' ' -gcc -dumpversion 2>&1| awk \ -'NR==1{print "Gnu C ", $1}' +gcc -dumpversion 2>&1 | +sed ' + /^[0-9\.]*$/!d + s/^/GNU C\t\t\t/ +' make --version 2>&1 | awk -F, '{print $1}' | awk \ '/GNU Make/{print "Gnu make ",$NF}' -- 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/