determining utility version [Re: Some wierdness with gnu ls]

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From: Jim Meyering
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:54

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There is a way to determine the version of the
GNU shell/file/text-utils, but it's not through an option.

If you have the `strings' command, this may work for you:

  strings - `which ls' |grep -iw version

The following shell function works for me using Bash.
    ver () { strings - "$@" | grep -iw version }

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In article <1992Jul29.163042.27106@spectrum.xerox.com> leisner.henr801c@xerox.com writes:
>Also, ls should have some type of version option.

>marty
>leisner.henr801c@xerox.com  
>Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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Jim Meyering             | Member of the League for Programming Freedom
meyering@cs.utexas.edu   | Contact me or league@prep.ai.mit.edu for more info.

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Subject: determining utility version [Re: Some wierdness with gnu ls]
Date: 30 Jul 1992 16:54:31 -0500
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