Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

[David Ford]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matthias Juchem wrote:
> I guess if you use a development version the above returns nothing. If I'm
> right, a pre-release libc was recommended for use with 2.2.0 (I'm not
> sure).

Here is a random idea.

get the pathname of the library(ies) then this sed expression:

sed \
 '/C [lL]ibrary /!d; s/[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' \
 /lib/libc.so.6

For me it returns either 5.4.46 or 2.2 depending on what filename is fed to it.

exp: the first regexp heavily filters the input data for the second so
significantly less cpu is spent for the real matching.

/C [lL]ibrary /!d  -- match example: "C Library "

match #1:	[^0-9]*
  match everything until we hit a digit
match #2:	\([0-9.]*\)
  match all digits and '.' and use pattern space #1
match #3:	.*
  match the remainder

We're left with pattern space #1 holding the assumed library version number.

This is done with sed version GNU 3.02.80, some versions differ, buyer beware.

$ sed '/C [lL]ibrary /!d; s/[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' /lib/libc.so.6
2.2
$ sed '/C [lL]ibrary /!d; s/[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' /lib/libc.so.5
5.4.46
$ 

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