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Is this portable: VERSION=$(echo 111.222.333-444 | awk -F '[.-]' '{print $3}') I'm doing the kernel version test for >255 ajmitch (ajmitch@138.44.149.244) joined #gnuenterprise. ajmitch (ajmitch@138.44.149.244) left irc: "Leaving" someon (~some1@h24-81-151-173.vf.shawcable.net) joined #gnuenterprise. jbailey: No timestamp in logs... someon: Wha?? jbailey: Looks portible though. Should work on almost any verion of Unix. Not sure about how you would get the version number of Windows OS you are on though Is this portable: VERSION=$(echo 111.222.333-444 | awk -F '[.-]' '{print $3}') it works beautifully with uname -r on the GNU/Linux box I'm on at the moment. I can check it on a UnixWare box if you want. Tomorrow at least *lol* Agh thanks. =) I had actually posted it to the wrong channel. It's for debian-glibc - I mostly needed to know if it worked across the posix shells in Debian. =) I looks like it should work anywhere where there is a functional awk. But I'm no expert :( sh doesn't seem to like it, unless 333 is an identifier That doesn't make any sense. 333 is the result I'm expecting to be stuffed into the variable. wendall911 (~wendallc@216.255.199.8) joined #gnuenterprise. But I need to go to bed now. jbailey (~jbailey@CPE00062579efac-CM014260028338.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) left irc: "Client exiting" --- Wed Jan 14 2004