how to determine kernel version

[Jeff Vian]

Harry Putnam wrote:

>Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> writes:
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>>So modify the rpm statement  to "rpm =qa | grep kernel " or "rpm -qa
>>kernel\*"  and it WILL show all kernels installed with rpm ( as well
>>as all other kernel packages, source, etc) .
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>A typo I guess `=' but this:  
>   rpm -qa|grep  kernel\*
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>won't show anything different than:
>   rpm -qa|grep kernel
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>I think you're mixing up regular expressions and globbing
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yes, a typo, and  I indicated they would both give the information

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