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Methods to obtain version from changelog



Am Freitag, den 30.01.2009, 10:34 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> In the blends-dev package I use:
> 
>     version="(>= `dpkg-parsechangelog | grep "^Version:" | sed -e "s/^Version:[[:space:]]\+\([\.0-9]*\)[[:space:]]*/\1/"`)"
> 

Two other variants which I came to see quite often:

dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '/^Version/ { print $2 }'
dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^Version' | cut -d' ' -f2

The awk version is the shortest I know of. (Not including the three
spaces that could be removed from the statement.) ;)

Best regards
Manuel

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