Re: update software

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:26:34AM +0500, Waqas Toor wrote:
to be honest i use fedora but the script to write is purely distro
independent..
so
if
wget abc.2.3.tar.gz .... how to check 2.3. part in this string in
bash.. as its the requirement

You'll need to have a set of rules for how each package puts its version
number in the filename. Generally this is of the form
"package-x.y.z.tar.gz", but you'll have to deal with issues like
"package2-x.y.z.tar.gz" and "pack-age-x.y.z.tar.gz" and
"package-beta.n-x.y.z.tar.gz", etc. -- there's no standard way of doing
this.

Then, use one of the many available text parsers (given the complication,
this is probably a job for perl) to extract the number you want.

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