On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 11:06:39AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > YM `basename $x | sed -e 's/^[^_]*_//; s/\.deb$//; s/_.*//;'` > which will strip off the package name, and any architecture component, > or better still > `dpkg-deb -f $x version` I will use "dpkg -f..." for boot-floppies_2.1.6 -- Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es