Re: [Nolug] Major kernel version, or "extracting substring from a symbol"

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 07:53, scotth@scottharney.com wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We all know that "uname -r" gives the exact kernel version. How
> > do I extract out the "2.4"?
>
> Do you have the "kernelversion" command? It exists on my
> debian and gentoo boxes.
>
> In any case, "kernelversion" is this shell script:

Got it, thanks.

$ dpkg -S /bin/kernelversion
modutils: /bin/kernelversion

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