On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:26:34AM +0500, Waqas Toor wrote: > to be honest i use fedora but the script to write is purely distro > independent.. > so > if > wget abc.2.3.tar.gz .... how to check 2.3. part in this string in > bash.. as its the requirement You'll need to have a set of rules for how each package puts its version number in the filename. Generally this is of the form "package-x.y.z.tar.gz", but you'll have to deal with issues like "package2-x.y.z.tar.gz" and "pack-age-x.y.z.tar.gz" and "package-beta.n-x.y.z.tar.gz", etc. -- there's no standard way of doing this. Then, use one of the many available text parsers (given the complication, this is probably a job for perl) to extract the number you want. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
