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kpm

2007-05-24, 7:20 am

Hi
Is there a way in unix to determine version infomration of programs /
CORBA components running in the system
Regards

Andrew Smallshaw

2007-05-24, 7:18 pm

On 2007-05-24, kpm <kpmkhaja@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way in unix to determine version infomration of programs /
> CORBA components running in the system


Not in the general case. Many programs will have a -v or --version
option that will report the version number. Other tools report a
version number somewhere in their diagnostic output. There isn't
any method of extracting this uniformly.

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Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org
Glenn Jackman

2007-05-24, 7:18 pm

At 2007-05-24 11:28AM, "Andrew Smallshaw" wrote:
> On 2007-05-24, kpm <kpmkhaja@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Not in the general case. Many programs will have a -v or --version
> option that will report the version number. Other tools report a
> version number somewhere in their diagnostic output. There isn't
> any method of extracting this uniformly.


You could also try what(1) or ident(1) to see version control
information embedded in the program.


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Glenn Jackman
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." -- Dave Barry
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