Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] How to extract the version/revision of an installed package?

[Andrew Gaffney]

Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
Given the following:
# qlist -Iv sys-apps/portage
sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5
How do I safely extract the "2.1.4.5"?

That's probably offtopic for this list, since it really has nothing to do with 
portage itself. However, you probably want something like:

qlist -Iv sys-apps/portage | sed -e 's:^.*-\([0-9][^-_]*\).*$:\1:'

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer            Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead