Re: Retrieving Version numbers.
| From: | Batonik | Date: | Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:18:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Retrieving Version numbers. | ||
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, ACNS-ONLINE Webmaster wrote:
> I need to retrieve the version number from differant programs. example: =
> "perl -v", or "sendmail -bt -d0", etc..
>
> The problem is that (for example perl) the program returns a bunch of BS =
> that isn't needed. Does anyone know of a way to access this info =
> easily?
I.e. with perl try using:
perl -e 'print $]'
In other cases "preg_match" would be helpful, I guess.
Greets,
Batonik