Calling 'awk' more then once is redundant. The output of 'make --version' already has the data we are after, why not utilise it.
The proposed implementation uses 'sed' to utilise the data output modifying the white space formatting only. 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 22:31:54.479651499 +0300 @@ -14,8 +14,11 @@ gcc -dumpversion 2>&1| awk \ 'NR==1{print "Gnu C ", $1}' -make --version 2>&1 | awk -F, '{print $1}' | awk \ - '/GNU Make/{print "Gnu make ",$NF}' +make --version 2>&1 | +sed ' + /^\(GNU Make\)[ \t]/!d + s//\1\t\t/ +' echo "binutils $(ld -v | egrep -o '[0-9]+\.[0-9\.]+')" -- 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/