+ 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,
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