#!/bin/bash FILE="abc.2.3.tagr.gz" echo $FILE | cut -f 2,3 -d. (will output the version) Of course this is making A LOT of assumptions on file format and such....as long as your files are of the format <package_name>.<major_num>.<minor_num>.<extension>
-B 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