Is there a "universal" command that I can use to find out the version
of certain libs, apps, and modules

I remember using a distro that allowed me to do something like

binutils --versio

I want to be able to do this without staring at a console of 2,00
packages

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On 2005-06-06, Social Burn <socialburn@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote:
> Is there a "universal" command that I can use to find out the versions
> of certain libs, apps, and modules?
>
> I remember using a distro that allowed me to do something like;
>
> binutils --version
>
> I want to be able to do this without staring at a console of 2,000
> packages.
>

In slack

ls -la /var/log/packages

the version number for each program is part of the program name.

same is generally true of libs

ls -la /lib

ls -la /usr/lib

Is this what you mean?

ken

* Social Burn <socialburn@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> writes:

> Is there a "universal" command that I can use to find out the versions
> of certain libs, apps, and modules?

No.

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No_One wrote:

> On 2005-06-06, Social Burn <socialburn@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid>
> wrote:
>> Is there a "universal" command that I can use to find out the versions
>> of certain libs, apps, and modules?
>>
>>
>> I want to be able to do this without staring at a console of 2,000
>> packages.
>>
>
> In slack
>
> ls -la /var/log/packages

so he could do something like:

ls -l /var/log/packages | grep libogg