+ Frans Pop (Thu, 21 May 2009 00:12:59 +0200): > + ... dpkg -s passwd | sed -n '/^Version:/s,^Version: ,,p') FWIW that can be written just as `sed -n 's/^Version: //p'`, since "p" will only print if a substitution was made, but what you probably want is `dpkg-query -W -f '${Version}\n' passwd`, which TTBOMK is the preferred interface for such queries. HTH, -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai